Which filmmaker will receive the Nobel Prize in Cinema?
The 77-year-old and well-known German director was chosen as the recipient of France’s prestigious annual Lumiere award.
Charso Press: According to Euronews, the famous director of films such as “Paris, Texas”, “Under the Berlin Sky”, “Buena Vista Social Club” and the outstanding film of this year’s Cannes Festival, “Great Days”, won the Lumiere Prize in France; The title that went to Hollywood filmmaker Tim Burton last year.
The 15th edition of the prestigious French Lumiere Festival, focusing on classic films, will be held in Lyon from October 14 to 22 (October 22 to 30), and “Wanders” will receive the Lumiere Award on Friday, October 20, 2023.
The Lumière Prize, which is known as the Nobel of Cinema, was previously awarded to Clint Eastwood, Milos Forman, Ken Loach, Quentin Tarantino, Pedro Almador, Martin Scorsese, Catherine Deneuve, Wong The work has been awarded to: Wai, Jane Fonda, Francis Ford Coppola, Darden Brothers, Jane Campion, and Tim Burton.
In a statement, the Lumière Institute wrote: “He is the man who embodied the revival of German and European cinema at the beginning of the 1970s and 1980s, a wandering filmmaker who reinvented the road movie. He is the director of “Paris, Texas” and “Berlin Skies”, a man who has followed his own path as an artist and has recently achieved a major double hit with his last two films, “Anselm” and “Great Days”. .
“Wim Wenders” won the Palme d’Or for the best film at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984 with the film “Paris Texas” and in 1987 he won the Cannes Director Award for the film “Under the Berlin Sky”. Also, his documentary “Salt of the Earth” about the photographer “Sebastiao Salgado” won the César Award for the best documentary film in 2015.
Wenders returned to the competition at Cannes this year with his latest film, Great Days. Japanese actor Koji Yakusho also won the best actor award for his role in the film.
“Great Days” is about a toilet cleaner in Tokyo who tells a human story about meditation, happiness and everyday blessings, what the Japanese refer to as komoribi – literally “radiation of sunlight through the trees”, a concept which shows the impermanence of life and emphasizes the dance between difficulties and easier moments while we still have time.
Wim Wenders has recently been chosen as the head of the jury of the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival.