French director Claude Lelouch ( A Man and a Woman , Happy New Year , The Beautiful Story ) will be honored at this year’s Venice Film Festival with the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award, a prize dedicated to a “personality who has made a particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industry.”
Lelouch will receive the prize Monday, Sept. 2, at Venice’s Sala Grande ahead of the out-of-competition screening of his latest feature, Finalement , a musical fantasy starring Kad Merad ( Welcome to the Sticks , The Chorus ). Elsa Zylberstain, Michel Boujenah, Sandrine Bonnaire, Barbara Pravi and Françoise Gillard co-star. The film was produced by Les Films 13 in co-production with France 2 Cinéma and Laurent Dassault Rond-Point. Metropolitan Filmexport is handling international sales.
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“Claude Lelouch is one of the top directors of French cinema, an excellent interpreter of its ‘quality,’ albeit alien to its main currents,” said Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera. “He is also a very prolific filmmaker, having directed over 60 feature films. A precocious film lover, the author of shorts and musical videos, a cinematographer, screenwriter, actor and producer.”
Calling him an “atypical and unclassifiable filmmaker,” Barbera singled out Lelouch’s 1966 feature A Man and a Woman , starring Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant, which won the Golden Palme in Cannes and went on to win two Oscars, for best foreign language film and for best original screenplay, for Lelouch and co-writer Pierre Uytterhoeven.
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“Claude Lelouch’s career resembles a symphony played out across a lifetime,” said Cyrille Vigneron, president and CEO of Cartier, which sponsors the award. “His filmography spans over 64 years, with many award-winning films…. Lelouch’s characters are incredibly human, his life stories stay in our minds, in particular his unwavering obsession for beautiful love stories. What would Love do without Claude Lelouch to express its unstoppable power?”
The 81st Venice film festival runs Aug. 28-Sept. 7.
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