Luca Guadagnino will obtain the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award at this yr’s Venice Movie Pageant.
The Italian director, who’s premiering his seven-hour Bernardo Bertolucci documentary “Joie de Vivre” at this yr’s pageant, is being honored as “a persona who has made a very authentic contribution to the up to date movie business,” in response to a press launch. Guadagnino can be offered the award in a ceremony on Sept. 8 earlier than the premiere of “Joie de Vivre.”
“It would look like a rhetorical gesture to say I’m honored to obtain the Glory to the Filmmaker award, however it’s the plain fact for a lot of causes,” Guadagnino mentioned in a press release. “To be honored for one’s craft or life as a filmmaker is an ambition that nobody who makes movies might ever presume to think about attaining — particularly by becoming a member of a gaggle of filmmakers who’ve acquired this prestigious honor earlier than me and to whom I owe a lot of my growth. So, I need to emphasize as soon as once more what an honor it’s to obtain this award, particularly from Alberto Barbera and La Biennale di Venezia. Thanks, thanks!”
Added Barbera: “The Glory to the Filmmaker Award celebrates in Luca Guadagnino an creator who has managed to rework his curiosity right into a type of artistic freedom. Defying alignment with any single college or motion, he has established himself as a world director, able to working with main worldwide actors and producers. He has navigated various genres — from melodrama to horror, coming-of-age to psychological thriller — whereas sustaining a constant and recognizable voice, with out ever shedding a deeply Italian id in portraying our bodies, settings and historical past. His is an important cinema that doesn’t shrink back from danger: nomadic, sensual, refined but extensively accessible, the place mental provocation and emotion, reminiscence and modernity coexist brilliantly. Glory to the Filmmaker honors the originality of a imaginative and prescient that has succeeded in renewing the language of latest cinema, celebrating a profession that has introduced Italian auteurship into a real dialogue with the complete world.”
