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A Golden Icon Award for Juliette Binoche
The Zurich Film Festival announced today it will award its most prestigious award to the French actress, Juliette Binoche. Among the last recipients were Michael Douglas, Richard Gere, Sean Penn, Cate Blanchett and Glenn Close.
The 56 years old Academy Award winner is coming to Zurich to present her latest film LA BONNE ÉPOUSE. On September 30th in cinema Corso 1 she will receive the Golden Icon Award for her acting career. The moral comedy film by Martin Provost will be released in the cinemas on 29 October in the German-speaking part of Switzerland.
No other French actress has received it before. “In the year that France is our guest country, it’s a great pleasure to honour a true icon of French cinema,” says Artistic Director Christian Jungen, “Binoche is an extremely versatile actress who chooses her roles with great care and embodies her characters with such depth, both in dramas and comedies.”
French actress Juliette Binoche credit photo “Jorge Fuembuena Loscertales / San Sebastian Film Festival”
Binoche, who has been at festival before, reacted to her nomination. “I am very happy to come to the ZFF in this year that is so special for the world and for the cinema. It’s great that the Zurich Film Festival exists and can defend the cinema and the various international cultures represented through the films it presents to its audience. I’m very touched to be honoured with the Golden Icon Award, but above all it’s the films and the directors who made them that will be honoured through me”, says Binoche, and adds: “I was impressed by the dynamism of the festival when I came in 2014 to meet the public. Meeting people who are passionate about other people and cultures has always made me move forward, because with each new film that’s what determines me: meeting new worlds and through the characters I embody allow audiences from all over the world to discover new universes in turn. Thanks to the Zurich Festival and see you soon!”
She has stood in front of the camera for such masters as Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Kryszstof Kieslowski, Abbas Kiarostami, Claire Denis and Olivier Assayas, and is admired around the globe. She has played in over 75 films.
Who doesn´t remember her as the nurse in Anthony Minghella´s romantic drama ” THE ENGLISH PATIENT” in 1988? Binoche is the only person in the world to have been declared Best Actress at Cannes, Venice and Berlin for COPIE CONFORME, THE ENGLISH PATIENT and TROIS COULEURS BLEU respectively
Binoche will also discuss her career during a ZFF Masters session on October 1st.
About Juliette Binoche:
Born March 9, 1964
Birthplace – Paris
Her debut: in Jean-Luc Godard’s JE VOUS SALUE, MARIE
Her international breakthrough: in Philip Kaufman’s THE UNBEAREABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING and Louis Malle’s FATALE
Other films: CODE INCONNU, CACHÉ, IN MY COUNTRY, COSMOPOLIS, LES ENFANTS DU SIÈCLE, PARIS, UN BEAU SOLEIL INTÉRIEUR, HIGH LIFE
Her most recent films: LA VÉRITÉ by Hirokazu Kore-Eda and LA BONNE ÉPOUSE by Martin Provost
Upcoming film: in LE QUAI DE OUISTREHAM by Emmanuel Carrère
