Charlotte Gainsbourg will receive the Golden Eye Lifetime Achievement Award at the Zurich Film Festival.

Charlotte Gainsbourg will receive the Golden Eye Lifetime Achievement Award at the Zurich Film Festival.

The famous French-British actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (a nymphomaniac, the science of sleep) will receive the Zurich Golden Eye for Lifetime Achievement at the Zurich International Film Festival 2022.

Zurich will also host the world premiere of Gainsbourg’s latest film. Almond and seahorse.

Gainsbourg will participate in the 18th Zurich Film Festival and will receive the award on 26 September.

Daughter of English singer and actress Jane Birkin and French composer, singer and actor Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte Gainsbourg is one of the most recognizable faces in European cinema and the Art House, having worked with famous authors such as Lars von Trier.Antichrist, Melancholy, a nymphomaniac) Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu (21 grams), Michel Gondry (Sleep Science), Wim Wenders (everything will be fine), Todd Haynes (I’m there?) and Inês Varda (Jane B Agnes V.).

Gainsbourg has worked from time to time in Hollywood or more mainstream, starring opposite Jeff Goldblum in a sci-fi sequel by Roland Emmerich. Independence Day: The Renaissance (2016) and with Michael Fassbender in Thomas Alfredsson’s thriller Snowman (2017).

Last year, Gainsbourg stayed behind the camera and directed a documentary Jane by Charlottewho explored his relationship with his famous mother.

“Charlotte Gainsbourg is one of the most versatile characters in European cinema,” said Christian Jungen, artistic director of the Zurich Film Festival. “He is known for his bold choice of roles: whether it’s a horror thriller or a romantic comedy, an avant-garde drama or mainstream Hollywood, he has the ability to give his characters human depth and credibility across all genres. And he’s one of those rare actors who can charm with his charisma and direct an entire movie all by himself.

Gainsbourg will be present at the world premiere of The Almond and the Seahorse with co-star Rebel Wilson. In screenwriter/actress Celine Jones and cinematographer Tom Stern’s directorial debut, adapted from the Keith O’Reilly play, Gainsbourg and Wilson play an archaeologist and an architect struggling to chart a shared future after a traumatic brain injury tears them apart. of your loved ones. some. any. Trini Deerholm also stars.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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