2023-10-20 22:57:00
German filmmaker Wim Wenders received the 2023 Lumière prize in France on Friday for his entire body of work. Aged 78, he said he sometimes felt like a ‘dinosaur’. The next film is ‘what matters most,’ he added.
The Lumière prize, awarded at the end of the festival in Lyon, rewards a leading director or actor each year. ‘It’s still absolutely unimaginable that the inventors of cinema’ were called Lumière (the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière, editor’s note), declared Wim Wenders, very moved, upon receiving his prize. ‘Light is still the very essence of cinema.’
‘On screen, we try to shed light on the world, on stories, on people. What I did in my cinema is to clarify this question: how we live, how we can live better,’ explained the director of ‘Wings of Desire’.
During the festival, Wim Wenders presented his two new films, ‘Perfect Days’, the story of the life of a simple public toilet worker in Tokyo, passionate regarding photography, music and books, and ‘Anselm – The Noise of time’, portrait of the contemporary visual artist Anselm Kieffer.
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