“To me, they’re instrumental,” says Isabelle Huppert regarding film festivals. Huppert leads the jury at this year’s Venice Film Festival, which starts this Wednesday. French actress Isabelle Huppert is heading to Venice, serving as Jury President at the – which kicks off on Wednesday with the premiere of Tim Burton’s .
Prior to her arrival, the star of , and has shared what she thinks film festivals represent for cinema and its future, as well as her thoughts on the threats the artform faces. “Festivals are more and more important,” Huppert said to . “We all know that with the development of new ways of watching movies such as streaming platforms — which do have their virtues — movie theatres are somewhat threatened.
So festivals are crucial ecosystems for the visibility of movies and for the film industry as a whole.” “To me, they’re instrumental,” she added. Starting on 28 August 28 until 7 September, Huppert and her jury will watch precisely 21 films selected in Competition before electing this year’s coveted Golden Lion.
Among some of the hottest titles in Competition this year are Todd Phillips’ return to the Lido with , starring Joaquin Phoenix and ; Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut with Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore; Brady Corbet’s , which chronicles 30 years in the life of a Hungarian-born Jew who survived Auschwitz; the return of with , based on the 1985 novel of the same name by William S. Burroughs and starring Da.
