Wim Wenders (77) will receive the prestigious Lumière Award at France’s Lumière Film Festival in October. This has already been announced on the website of the annual event. With the 15th Lumière Award, which is given for the complete work of one person, “a giant of the cinema” is once again honored, according to the explanatory statement.
Wenders was a symbolic figure for the resurgence of German and European cinema in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His films “Paris, Texas” and “Der Himmel über Berlin” are not only iconic, Wenders has also reinvented the road movie itself. In addition, he never stopped “reinventing himself and has lived a thousand lives”.
He was one of the first filmmakers invited by the Lumière Institute in 1991 for a retrospective and photo exhibition. Since then he has not returned. The festival will take place in Lyon from October 14th to 22nd, so Wenders will receive the Lumière Award on October 20th and should also be present then.
He follows directly on his colleague Tim Burton (64) and director Jane Campion (69), who have been honored in the past two years. Previously, the award went to Francis Ford Coppola (84), Jane Fonda (85), Martin Scorsese (80), Quentin Tarantino (60) and Clint Eastwood (93), among others.
Wenders was also represented in Cannes with his new film “Perfect Days”. At the 76th International Film Festival there, Koji Yakusho (67) was awarded best actor for the feature film.
