successor to Tim Burton, Jane Campion or even Jean-Pierre and Luc DarinAnd Wim Wenders will receive the Lumière Prize October 20, 2023 through 15y Edition of Lyon Festival. Having gathered 180,000 visitors to the festival in 2022, this autumnal event created by Thierry Frémaux celebrates ” A character for all of her work and the link she maintains with the history of cinema From October 14 to 22, this event will pay tribute to this filmmaker, director, producer, screenwriter, photographer and teacher of the German language.
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In 1967, the artist with a thousand lives established part of his film culture at the Cinémathèque française during a year he spent in Paris. Then he gave up his studies of medicine and philosophy at the Munich Film and Television School. At the same time, he writes movie reviews for the newspaper Suddeuttsche Zeitung and review Critic. He’s with his graduation movie Summer in the city In 1970 he went behind the camera for the first time.
Soon after, the director revealed himself by reinventing the road movie in a trilogy consisting ofAlice in the cities (1974), wrong move (1975) and over time (1976). Revealing his taste for marginal characters, wanderlust and unusual travels, the final film in the trilogy won him the International Critics Prize at Cannes in 1976. With travel as his favorite subject, Wim Wenders shaped his main plot and sets using location photographs he had taken around the world. to Paris, Texas, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1982, the director travels to the American West in search of captivating landscapes. These many trips give him the opportunity to collaborate with producers from all over the world. Austrian director Peter Handke The goalkeeper’s concern at the moment of the penalty kick (1972) Spanish director Bernardo Fernandez with The scarlet letter (1973) French director Anatole Doman with Wings of desire (1987), Direction Award at Cannes the same year, Australia until the end of the world (1991) or Portuguese director Paulo Branco with Lisbon story (1994).
Multi-format movie maker
Wim Wenders is always looking for new experiences, and never stops reinventing himself. long formats (Hammett1982 (in short forms)Light and company1995 (through the stage)in villages1981), the director explores a wide range of themes through his works. As a figurehead of the German cinema revival of the 1970s and 1980s, Wim Wenders puts social criticism at the center of his work and devotes part of his career to reality cinema. Through the documentary, he depicts reality and sheds light on the personalities who inspired him. Nicholas Ray (Nick movie1980), Yasujirō Ozu (Tokyo Ga1985), Pina Bausch (Bina2011, European Film Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2011 and Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2012) or Sebastião Salgado (salt of the earth2014, Cesar and the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature 2015).
Rich in a career of more than 60 films, the filmmaker is rewarded with awards from around the world to celebrate his significant contribution to the history of cinema. In Germany (Grand Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2006), in France (Commander of Arts and Letters in 1993) or in Japan (Officer of the Imperial Emperor in 2022).
