Steve McQueen And Isabelle Huppert Honored At The Dublin International Film Festival
04.03.2024 - 15:15
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Prior to making headlines the next day after a short-lived health scare that required a brief stay in hospital, Ireland’s President Michael D. Higgins arrived at Dublin’s Complex arts center last Wednesday to present the Dublin film festival’s highest honor to Steve McQueen. Introduced in 2007 and named the Volta Award, after the first commercial cinema set up in Dublin in 1909 by writer James Joyce, its previous recipients include Daniel Day Lewis, Claudia Cardinale and Al Pacino. The famously serious director was in high spirits, enthusing that “festivals are about passion, a passion for film.” “There’s always a buzz, isn’t there?” he continued. “[As you] go to the next picture, the next film, you tend to give people tips and say, ‘Oh, you’ve got to see this, you’ve got to see that…’”
McQueen was in and out of the festival, flying home the same night, fueling speculation that the director has a Cannes premiere in mind for his new film Blitz, a wartime drama set in London and starring Saoirse Ronan. Also making a brief appearance was French acting legend Isabelle Huppert, who returned to Paris for the opening on Tuesday night of Jean Racine’s Bérénice, in which she stars for renowned Italian director Romeo Castellucci.
Huppert, a mere 20 minutes late for her own event, was interviewed on stage by writer/actor Clare Dunne. Standing in for Olwen Fouéré, who couldn’t attend due to illness, Dunne was in an interesting match for the formidable French icon. Details of her career were sketchy but understandable given that Huppert, soon to turn 71, has been acting for half a century. And though it would have been interesting to hear more specific details about her work — notably with Michael Haneke — it was fascinating to
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