The Californian will succeed the New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion in 2021, the Dardenne brothers in 2020 and his compatriot Francis Ford Coppola in 2019.
Le Monde with AFP
The director, scriptwriter and American producer Tim Burton, 63, will receive the Light Prize during the 14
The Light Prize was created in 2009 by the Lumière Institute – led by Bertrand Tavernier until his death, in March 2021 – to celebrate a personality for all of his work and the link it maintains with The history of cinema.
The Californian will succeed the New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion, who received the prize in 2021, to the Dardenne brothers, in 2020, and to his compatriot Francis Ford Coppola, in 2019.
“It is a visionary, a stylist and an artist who offered in the world cinema a universe of rare coherence and an unprecedented aesthetic impact in popular culture”, explains the management of the festival in a press release International cinema. And add:
“This autumn, Lumière 2022 will therefore offer a dive in Wonderland somewhere between Americaa and its legends, Victorian England, futuristic megalopolises and suburban subdivisions, in the company of heroes, monsters, monstrous hero or heroic monsters from the world of Tim Burton. “
” True rock star of 7 e art “
Adept of the fantastic and influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, this “real rock star of 7 e art”, according to the festival, has delivered several cinema pearls in thirty-five years of career: de Batman to Dumbo, via Bettlejuice, Edward in silver hands, Big Fish, Sleepy Hollow, Alice in Wonderland or Mars Attacks.
Burton turned with a host of actors, including the faithful Michael Keaton, Johnny Depp – whom he directed eight times – and Helena Bonham Carter, his ex -partner and the mother of his two children.
His long collaboration with the composer Danny Elfman, who writes for him some of the most beautiful themes of contemporary cinema, has helped to forge the legend Burton, still recalls the direction of the Lumière festival. He will receive the award on October 21.
The Light Prize is awarded to Lyon, a city of birth of the Lumière cinematograph, and has become over the years one of the most prestigious awards recognized by the profession and the international press.
The prize was notably awarded to Jane Fonda, Wong Kar-Wai, Catherine Deneuve, Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodovar, Quentin Tarantino, Ken Loach, Gérard Depardieu, Milos Forman and Clint Eastwood.