San Sebastian Film Festival 2022: Juliette Binoche, first Donostia Award of the 70th edition

San Sebastian Film Festival 2022: Juliette Binoche, first Donostia Award of the 70th edition

The actress is the protagonist of the official poster of the edition.

    The actress Juliette Binocheone of the most international European faces, stars in the official poster of the 70th edition of the San Sebastian Festival, which will be held from September 16 to 24. The French interpreter will visit the city for the fourth time to receive one of this year’s Donostia Awards in recognition of a long career in which she has played nearly 75 characters, from powerful heroines to fragile beings, passing through historical figures, dramatic roles and comic roles.

    The award ceremony will take place in the Kursaal Auditorium and will feature the Donostia Award Screening of ‘Fire’, 2022, a film with which claire denis It won the Silver Bear for Best Direction at the last Berlin Film Festival and its cast includes Vincent Lindon, Grégoire Colin and Binoche herself.

    The French actress (Paris, 1964) made her film debut with ‘Liberty Belle’ (Pascal Kané, 1983), which was followed by some roles in works by filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard ‘or I greet you, Maria’, 1985), Jacques Doillon (‘La vie de famille’, 1985) or André Techiné ‘La cita’, 1985, with whom he coincided again years later in ‘Alice y Martin’, 1998). The iconic ‘Bad blood’, 1986) was her first collaboration with Leos Carax, under whose orders she also filmed ‘Lovers of the Pont-Neuf’, 1991.

    Since the beginning of his career, he has alternated titles shot in French with many others made in English, such as the literary adaptations of ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’, from 1988, ‘Wuthering Heights’ (1992) or ‘Herida’ (1992), in who acted with Daniel Day-Lewis, Ralph Fiennes Y Jeremy Irons, respectively. Other figures with whom he has shared a cast during his career are Mathieu Amalric, Daniel Auteil, Judi DenchSteve carell, Catherine Deneuve, Johnny Depp, Ethan Hawke, Mathieu Kassovitz, Samuel L. Jackson, Denis Lavant, Olivier Martinez, Clive Owen Y Robert Pattinson.

    Binoche played a grieving woman in the film that inaugurated Krzysztof Kieslowski’s famous trilogy, ‘Trois couleurs: Bleu’, for whose work she received the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival and a César Award, a distinction to which she He has chosen nine more times. She was also the novelist George Sand in ‘Intimate Confessions of a Woman’, Diane Kurys, 1999. But Massive international recognition came to her thanks to her unforgettable role as a nurse in ‘The English Patient’, in 1996, which gave her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and the Award for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival.

    He has worked under the command of European filmmakers such as Jean-Paul Rappeneau, who closed the Official Section of the San Sebastian Festival out of competition with ‘The hussar on the roof, 1995; Chantal Akerman (‘Romance in New York’, 1996), Patrice Leconte (‘The Widow of Saint-Pierre’, 2000), Lasse Hallström (‘Chocolat’, 2000), John Boorman (‘A Country in Africa’, 2004) and Michael Haneke, with whom he has shot two fundamental works: ‘Unknown Code’ in 2000 and ‘Cache’, from 2005.

    This year’s poster collection is a tribute to the gaze and to all ways of looking at life and cinema. Below you have the posters of this edition.

    Source: Fotogramas

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