French-Swiss actress Irène Jacob, best-known for her star-making turns in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Lifetime of Veronique (1991), and Three Colours: Pink (1994), can be honored at this 12 months’s Locarno Movie Pageant with the Leopard Membership Award for her contribution to up to date cinema.
The award ceremony will happen at Locarno’s Piazza Grande on the night of Friday, Aug. 9 and be adopted the following morning by a public dialog with Jacob at Discussion board @Spazio Cinema. The pageant will display Kieślowski’s Three Colours: Pink in tribute.
“Irène Jacob is certainly one of cinema’s most mysterious and stylish presences,” mentioned Locarno inventive director Giona A. Nazzaro. “Her each efficiency manifests the elusive precision of a presence so utterly recognized with the movie’s photographs as to develop into nearly a part of the cinematography. Her ability in surrendering herself to the administrators’ gaze after which, quite the opposite, to vigorously embodying the character, taking cost of it, is the signal of a refined and knowingly instinctual artwork… Jacob is a veritable treasure of the cinema.”
Born in Paris however raised in Geneva, Jacob made her movie debut in Louis Malle’s Au revoir les enfants (1987), which received the Golden Lion on the Venice Movie Pageant. But it surely was her work with Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski that may convey her worldwide fame. Their first collaboration, and Kieślowski’s first characteristic made exterior Poland, The Double Lifetime of Veronique (1991), premiered in Cannes, the place Jacob received the perfect actress honor. Jacob additionally starred in Three Colours: Pink, Kieślowski’s final movie, which premiered in Cannes, dropping out on the Palme d’Or that 12 months to Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. The movie, which additionally screened in Locarno in 1994, went on to obtain three Oscar nominations.
Three Colours: Pink made Jacob a world title and she or he would go on to characteristic in a number of worldwide productions: Enjoying Desdemona alongside Laurence Fishburne and Kenneth Branagh in Oliver Parker’s Othello (1995); taking supporting roles in U.S. Marshals with Tommy Lee Jones and Wesley Snipes, and in My Life So Far (1999) with Colin Firth and Rosemary Harris.
Extra not too long ago, Jacob has performed in such arthouse dramas as Shikun from Amos Gitai, which premiered in Berlin this 12 months, and in Rithy Panh’s Cannes entry Assembly With Pol Pot.
The 77th Locarno Movie Pageant runs Aug. 7-17. Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner will function jury president of the 77th version.