European Film Awards 2009: Isabelle Huppert to Receive European Achievement in World Cinema Award
Isabelle Huppert in La Cérémonie (top); Story of Women (middle); and 8 Women, with Catherine Deneuve
Isabelle Huppert, one of the greatest actresses of her generation, will be the next recipient of the European Film Academy’s European Achievement in World Cinema. She’s only the third woman to be so honored in this category’s 13-year history. (For the record: the other two were Victoria Abril and Liv Ullmann.)
The fifty-six-year-old Huppert began her career in the early 1970s, appearing in supporting roles in films such as Claude Sautet’s Cesar and Rosalie (1972) and Bertrand Blier’s Going Places (1974). By the end of the decade, she was playing leads in Claude Chabrol’s Violette Nozière (1978) and Jean-François Adam’s Retour à la bien-aimée (1979), and [...]
by Andre Soares | October 7, 2009
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Tags: 8 Women, Classic Movies, European Film Awards, European Film Awards 2009, Film Awards, Isabelle Huppert, La cérémonie, My Mother, Story of Women, The Piano Player, Violette Nozière
