Wim Wenders will receive the 15th Lumière Award

After Tim Burton, Jane Campion or even Clint Eastwood and Catherine Deneuve, the German filmmaker Wim Wenders will receive the 15th Lumière prize, celebrating the most important personalities of the 7th art, in October in Lyon. Wim Wenders, 77, won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1984 for his Paris-Texas road movie. His cinema travels from divided Berlin (The Wings of Desire, 1987) to Tokyo, explored in his latest film, Perfect Days, presented in competition in May at Cannes, via Cuba, for the musical documentary Buena Vista Social Club.

“Wim Wenders embodied the revival of German and European cinema at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s. Filmmaker of wandering, he reinvented the road movie, underlined the Lumière Institute of Lyon, in a press release. Celebrating in Lyon, in the birthplace of the Lumière cinematographer, this traveling filmmaker, polymorphous and visionary virtuoso, accomplished photographer, who never stopped reinventing himself and had a thousand lives, was obvious for a long time.

The prize must be awarded on October 20, during the Lumière festival (October 14-22), devoted to heritage cinema. Created by the Director General of the Institut Lumière, Thierry Frémaux, also at the head of the Cannes Film Festival, the Prix Lumière intends to "celebrate a personality for all of his work and the link he maintains with the history of movie theater". Among the artists already distinguished are Francis Ford Coppola, Wong Kar-wai, Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodóvar and Quentin Tarantino.