10/18 OCTOBER 2020 A film festival for everyone! JEAN-PIERRE AND LUC DARDENNE – Lumière Award 2020 GUESTS OF HONOUR Viggo Mortensen • Sabine Azéma • Thomas Vinterberg • Alice Rohrwacher • Albert Dupontel • Gabriel Yared • | 3 THE Monique Melinand and Jean Gabin in Blood to the Head by Gilles Grangier LUMIÈRE THE PROGRAMME Since 1895, the year the cinema was invented by the Lumières in Lyon, film theatres had never closed their doors. They have now reopened, and the Lumière festival looks forward to welcoming you to all the theatres of Lyon and its Metropolis to revisit the history of cinema with curiosity and passion, and AWARD to discover a host of premieres that herald wonderful months to come. Since this past March, we have been able to reflect on the place that cinema occupies in our lives. We have the answer: it is immeasurable. Since 2009, the Lumière Award has Welcome to one and all. recognized a cinema personality for his or her entire body of work and pivotal Retrospectives role in the history of cinema. The award is presented at a gala ceremony attended Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne: and the SACD. Coming soon: two books of the Lumière Institute’s by artists, professionals, journalists and Lumière Award 2020 collection published by Actes Sud, bringing together six the festivalgoers. Its international scope, Directors of incomparable style and precision, acclaimed screenplays from collaborations of Michel Audiard with prestigious list of honourees and media discoverers of actors, the Dardenne brothers have sealed Georges Simenon and Albert Simonin. impact have given the Lumière Award the their mark on contemporary cinema with their powerful vision. In their work, the poetics of reality are pushed A Permanent History of Female directors: aspiration to become a “Nobel Prize” for to their pinnacle, a nod to their origin as documentary cinema. filmmakers. Celebrated on the international scene and Joan Micklin Silver admired by their peers, they have won two Palme d’Or A daring pioneering filmmaker, Joan Micklin Silver awards and several others at the Cannes Film Festival. accomplished her first two feature films, Hester Street and Along with this year’s special guests, Lyon audiences Between the Lines at a time when the direction of fiction and all the festivalgoers, the time has come to celebrate projects was reserved for men. Forming an ambitious the work of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for what it is: duo with husband Raphael D. Silver (she directed, he humanist, bold, committed, turned towards the young produced), she quickly established a reputation with generation and crying out for truth. the public and independent American cinema. Marked FORMER RECIPIENTS In collaboration with Films du Fleuve, ARP Sélection, by her Jewish heritage and the issues of her time, Joan Diaphana and the Cinematek (Belgium). Micklin Silver’s filmography questions and contrasts key themes of American society such as tradition, modernity, This year, the 2019 Francis Ford Coppola Michel Audiard Centenary independence and uprooting. A discovery thanks to 2018 Jane Fonda Cohen Films. th The most famous dialogue writer in French cinema, Michel Three other films by female directors will complete the Audiard began composing his bouquets of words in the 12 Lumière Award 2017 Wong Kar-wai series, allowing us to revisit past editions, with works streets of Paris. Introduced by director André Hunebell to then unavailable and since restored: Audiences can will be presented to 2016 Catherine Deneuve the world of cinema, he would write for the great post-war savour films by Lina Wertmüller, Ida Lupino and Wanda filmmakers: Gilles Grangier, Claude Autant-Lara, Denys de Jakubowska. 2015 Martin Scorsese La Patellière and Henri Decoin. He would also collaborate Jean-Pierre and Luc with Jean Delannoy, Henri Verneuil and later Georges 2014 Pedro Almodóvar Lautner for Les Tontons Flingueurs/Monsieur Gangster Big classics in black and white Dardenne (1963), giving us some of the greatest films of the era, with For the second time, the Lumière festival offers a selection 2013 Quentin Tarantino Lino Ventura, Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, Francis Blanche, of masterpieces that have created the history of cinema. 2012 Ken Loach Mireille Darc, and a gallery of delicious supporting roles. Great classics to become acquainted with or to see again The handful of films he directed bear his mark: scathing with renewed pleasure on the big screen, from La Grande 2011 Gérard Depardieu dialogues, absurd situations and explosive confrontations Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937) to Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, between social classes. 1953), to Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954) or The 2010 Milos Forman In collaboration with Jacques and Stéphane Audiard, Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) and many others. Gaumont, Les Productions Jacques Roitfeld, Pathé, Experience great moments in cinema. 2009 Clint Eastwood StudioCanal, Tamasa, Éditions Montparnasse, TF1 Studio | 5 Lumière welcomes the Cannes Film Festival This past May, the whole world had to live without Cannes. The Festival teams nevertheless produced an Official Selection, in order to support this very particular cinema year. Fall festivals then offered to screen the films, including Lumière. Although the latter is a festival dedicated to classic flicks, it will happily make an exception and open itself to films of today. May Lumière also be a grand celebration of contemporary cinema! Cannes Official Selection 2020: Premieres Cannes Classics The Lumière festival welcomes the Official Selection of Lumière will also host a large part of the Cannes Classics the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. The public will thus be selection, restored films from the Cannes Film Festival. able to discover premieres in the presence of the teams This year marks several anniversaries: 20 years of In the of new films of Cannes regulars such as Maïwenn, Thomas Mood for Love by Wong Kar-wai, 60 years of Breathless and Vinterberg, Jonathan Nossiter, Lucas Belvaux or Sharunas L’Avventura, the maestros (Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Bartas; new names in the Selection such as Danielle Arbid, Pasolini), rediscoveries of the Cannes Festivals of ’60, ’68, Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, Farid Bentoumi, Ludovic ’73 and ’81, Melvin Van Peebles’s debut film, a landmark and Zoran Boukherma; the first works directed by Viggo documentary on Charlie Chaplin, and other film treasures Mortensen, Charlène Favier, Fanny Liatard and Jérémy to see again or discover. Trouilh, Suzanne Lindon, Samir Guesmi or Nicolas Maury; comedies by Laurent Lafitte, Bruno Podalydès, Emmanuel Courcol and also the Hong Kong movie of directors’ vignettes and the latest animated film from Ghibli studios. Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence by David Cronenberg Guests of honour Events Each Lumière guest will discuss his or her career and interact with the audience during a master class at the Comédie Odéon. Invitation to Oliver Stone Homage to Melina Mercouri by Nana Emblematic director of American cinema, an accomplished Mouskouri artist and great provocateur of American power since On the occasion of the centenary of her birth, the Lumière the 1980s, Oliver Stone will present his autobiography, festival pays tribute to the Greek actress with effervescent Viggo Mortensen Thomas Vinterberg Albert Dupontel Chasing the Light, released in France as À la recherche charm, who later became a politician and defender of de la lumière (L’Observatoire). Stone will also introduce European culture. The tribute will be led and accompanied Discovered on a worldwide scale Vital Danish filmmaker and founding Actor, director and screenwriter an exceptional screening of Born on the Fourth of July in by the exceptional Nana Mouskouri. thanks to playing Aragorn in the member of the Dogme 95 movement Albert Dupontel deploys his talent restored print at the Auditorium of Lyon. trilogy of The Lord of the Rings (Peter with Lars von Trier, Thomas with a very particular mastery of Jackson), Viggo Mortensen has Vinterberg affirms a real presence in the absurd and the grotesque. As accumulated striking roles, ranging the cinematographic landscape. His an actor, he plays his roles with from the disturbed in A History of début feature film (The Celebration) singularity; as a director, he sets Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005), to – first of the Dogme – was rewarded out to create a whole plethora of the poetic in Captain Fantastic (Matt at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998. characters, each more delectable Ross, 2016). The year 2020 signals Both in his words and his behaviour, and complex than the next, from his directorial debut with Falling, he creates films that jostle us. Bernie to See You Up There to 9-Month selected at Cannes and premiering Lumière will premiere his new film, Stretch. This year marks the release of at Lumière. Another Round, starring the stirring his new film, Bye Bye Morons. Mads Mikkelsen. Sabine Azéma Film music composer Since the 1970s, Sabine Azéma has Alice Rohrwacher Gabriel Yared distinguished herself in all genres, A leading figure in Italian auteur The César and Oscar-winning Franco- at ease both in comedies and in more cinema, Alice Rohrwacher directed Lebanese composer of countless serious roles. She has collaborated her first feature film Corpo Celeste in unforgettable musical themes, with many directors, from Bertrand 2011. She quickly established herself Gabriel Yared draws his inspiration Tavernier to Étienne Chatiliez and as a major director of the new Italian from both scholarly and popular is the winner of two Césars. An generation; she superimposes styles, music. After meeting Jean-Luc essential actress in Alain Resnais’s sketching each of her characters with Godard, he composed his first score filmography, she remained the muse finesse. Awarded at Cannes in 2014 for the film Every Man for Himself. of the great filmmaker until his death. for The Wonders, her writing skills From then on, Yared has continued were recognized in 2018 for Happy creating for the cinema; for Jean- as Lazzaro.