Huppert, Delon, Lelouch… The highlights of the Lumière 2024 festival

The actress will receive the Lumière Prize during the Lyon event dedicated to heritage cinema. Ask for the program.

Queen Huppert

2024, year Isabelle Huppert: on display for People next door by André Téchiné and The prisoner of Bordeaux by Patricia Mazuy, on stage in Berenice according to Racine, president of the Venice Film Festival and a Lumière Prize in Lyon awarded on October 18. In Lyon where she will give a masterclass just before receiving her laurels, we will be able to see and rewatch classics: The Lacemaker, Heaven’s Gate, The Ceremony Or The Pianist but also the intriguing thriller Greta by Neil Jordan.

The angel Mifune

Toshiro Mifume (1920 – 1997), actor-muse of Akira Kurosawa, is a national and international monument. Lyon Lumière has the good idea of ​​devoting a mini-retrospective to him which, in addition to the marked trails taken with the author of Rashomonadvances on roads less traveled. Not to be missed are the two opuses by Hiroshi Inagaki: the neo-realist The man with the rickshaw (1943) and the epic The legend of Musashi (1954).

Zinnemann will whistle lots of times

Fred Zinnemann (1907-1997), an Austrian who emigrated to the United States like his friends Billy Wilder and Otto Preminger, also had a prestigious career as a filmmaker. However, he did not achieve full cinephile recognition. The fault lies with a film whose coherence is a priori hardly visible. We will therefore readily speak of a great artisan in the absence of an author. The fact remains that The train will whistle three times, As long as there are men or even the latest Jackalcommand respect. Its staging, attached to a classicism which never constrains the eruption of feelings, rarely hits the face. This is because Zinnemann the humanist has always hidden himself behind his characters. To (re)discover, particularly in Lyon, the twilight and rare Julia1977 elegy with Jane Fonda.

Cannes to Lyon

Thierry Frémaux, delegate of the Cannes festival and major organizer of the Lyon event, likes to include in the program the previews of films seen last May on the Croisette. Lumière spectators will be able to see the explosive The Substance by Coralie Fargeat, the sensitive The most valuable commodity by Michel Hazanavicius or the oppressor Three kilometers to the end of the world by Emanuel Parvu. These three feature films were in the running for the Palme d’Or.

Tribute to Claude Lelouch

At 86 years old, the tireless Claude Lelouch continues to tour with the same fever as when he started. As proof, Lyon residents will be able to see its classics side by side Adventure is adventure (1972), Happy New Year (1973) and his latest Eventually with Kad Merad, offered in preview. Also discover the documentary on site Claude Lelouch, life better by Elise Baudouin. The festival boutique will offer the book of interviews produced by Jean Ollé-Laprune and Yves Alion to Presses de la Cité, Claude Lelouch, cinema is better than life.

Full Delon

Alain Delon, who died on August 18, is reborn in Lyon at the end of the Festival with the screening in the Halle Tony Garnier of Full Sun by René Clément. 1959, Delon as handsome as a God vampirizes Maurice Ronet whom he will push into The swimming pool ten years later. Full Sun is the first adaptation of Mister Ripley by Patricia Highsmith before that of Anthony Minghella in 1999.

Lyon Lumière Festival from October 12 to 20. Info: www.festival-lumiere.org