After a remarkable return to Cannes last May, at the age of 77, Wim Wenders will receive the Prix Lumière in October in Lyon, this prestigious award which celebrates the most important personalities of the seventh art.
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After Tim Burton, Jane Campion or even Clint Eastwood and Catherine Deneuve, the German director Wim Wenders will receive the 15th Prix Lumière, celebrating the most important personalities of the seventh art, in October in Lyon.
Wim Wenders”embodied the revival of German and European cinema at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s. Wandering filmmaker, he reinvented the road movie“, underlined the Lumière Institute of Lyon, in a press release.Celebrating in Lyon, in the birthplace of the Lumière cinematographer, this traveling filmmaker, virtuoso, polymorphic and visionary, accomplished photographer, who never stopped reinventing himself and had a thousand lives, was obvious for a long time.“, he adds.
Wim Wenders, 77, won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1984 for his road movie Paris-Texas. His cinema travels from divided Berlin (wings of desire1987) in Tokyo, explored in his last film, Perfect Days, presented in competition in May at Cannes, via Cuba, for the musical documentary Buena Vista Social Club.
The prize must be awarded on October 20, during the Lumière festival (October 14-22), devoted to heritage cinema. Created by the director general of the Lumière Institute, Thierry Frémaux, also at the head of the Cannes Film Festival, the Lumière Prize intends “celebrate a personality for all of his work and the link he maintains with the history of cinema“. Among the artists already distinguished are Francis Ford Coppola, Wong Kar-wai, Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodóvar or Quentin Tarantino.