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French actress Isabelle Huppert (Michael Haneke’s Elle, The Piano Instructor, La Cérémonie) will function the president of the worldwide jury of the competitors on the 81st Venice Worldwide Movie Competition, which takes place Aug. 28-Sept. 7.
The jury will determine on the Golden Lion for finest movie, in addition to different official awards.
The choice on the jury head was made by the board of administrators of the Biennale di Venezia primarily based on the advice of the director of the Venice Movie Competition, Alberto Barbera.
Huppert mentioned: “There’s a lengthy and delightful historical past between the competition and I. Changing into a privileged spectator is an honor. Greater than ever, cinema is a promise. The promise to flee, to disrupt, to shock, to take a great have a look at the world, united within the variations of our tastes and concepts.”
Barbera praised Huppert as “an immense actress, demanding, curious and of nice generosity.”
He added: “The muse of quite a few nice filmmakers, she has by no means shirked the invitation of younger or not-so-famous administrators who’ve seen in her the best interpreter of their tales. Her huge willingness to always put herself on the road, an indication of her unusual intelligence, collectively together with her skill to take a look at cinema past geographic and psychological boundaries, make her a great president of the jury in a competition open to the whole world, such nor the Venice Movie Competition.”
Isabelle Huppert Named Venice Movie Competition Jury President
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