Isabelle Huppert
She becomes jury chairwoman in Venice
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French acting icon Isabelle Huppert will chair the jury at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
At this year’s Venice Film Festival, French cinema legend Isabelle Huppert, 71, will chair the jury, as the renowned festival takes place on May 8th announced on his own website. Huppert has a special history associated with the film festival at the Lido. The acting icon has already received the Coppa Volpi as the festival’s best actress twice, in 1988 and 1995.
Isabelle Huppert: “It’s an honor”
The 81st Venice Film Festival is scheduled to take place in the lagoon city from August 28th to September 7th. Huppert, who became known for films such as “The Piano Player”, “Elle” or her numerous collaborations with the French directing legend Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), explained in a statement: “The festival and I have a long and beautiful one History. It’s an honor to be a privileged viewer.”
In 2009, Huppert chaired the jury at the Cannes International Film Festival. Alberto Barbera, director of the Venice Film Festival, said of his new jury president: “Isabelle Huppert is a great actress, demanding, curious and of great generosity […]. Her enormous willingness to put herself on the line again and again – a sign of her unusual intelligence – combined with her ability to view cinema across geographical and mental boundaries make her the ideal president of the jury of a festival like the Film Festival that is open to the whole world of Venice.”