Charlotte Gainsbourg received a Golden Eye for her entire career in Zurich on Monday as part of the 18th Zurich Film Festival (ZFF). Her latest film, “The Amond and the Seahorse”, had its world premiere.
Charlotte Gainsbourg is honored “for her brilliant career and her versatility” in film, ZFF pointed out. You have collaborated with the biggest names in the 7th art. She counts “among the most eclectic actresses of European cinema”.
“The Almond and the Seahorse” is inspired by a play by Kaite O’Reilly. Charlotte Gainsbourg shares the poster with Rebel Wilson. The film, directed by Celyn Jones and Tom Stern, tells the story of an archaeologist and an architect whose respective partners have suffered a traumatic brain injury.
This memory loss problem particularly resonates with the actress’s experience. “I had a terror in my memory for a long time. I had a skiing accident that caused a huge subdural hematoma and it scared me to a point I couldn’t have imagined. I didn’t think I was so scared and affected. By this accident. I’ve always been afraid of losing words, afraid of having consequences. I’ve always had a bad memory or a memory so selective that I learn a text and once the film is finished, or even the scene is over, I forget about it “, confides to “Vertigo”.
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At the cinema from the age of 14
The daughter of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin began her film career at the age of 14 in Claude Miller’s “L’effrontée” (1985). For this role, she received the César for Best Female Hope.
In 2009, her role in Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist” earned her the Best Actress award at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. Her first film “Jane by Charlotte”, a documentary about her mother, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021.
Almost 150 films screened in Zurich
From 22 September to 2 October, the Zurich Film Festival program brings together 146 films from 49 countries. Not to mention 18 Swiss films, including 7 from French-speaking Switzerland, a record. The Festival, whose selection committee has received more than 3,000 films, does not skimp on world and European premieres for this 18th edition.
Neil Jordan, Diane Kruger and Liam Neeson on the green carpet of the Zurich Film Festival for the film “Marlowe”. [Thomas Niedermüller – ZFF]In the “Gala Premieres” section – which features the films that will hit theaters this winter and many of which are vying for the next Oscars – the ZFF has selected the dark thriller “Marlowe”, by Neil Jordan. The Irish director came to Zurich on Sunday to present his film with Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger. She plays a femme fatale who, in 1930s Hollywood, uses a private investigator (Liam Neeson) to find her ex-husband.
The festival also presents “Dalíland”, a film about Salvador Dali, with Sir Ben Kingsley. The film chooses to talk about the painter when he is less successful: her wife sells paintings behind her, to continue to provide for her lifestyle in New York.
“The Good Nurse” with American actor Eddie Redmayne, a 1970s-style thriller, tells the true story of an angel of death who made more than 400 victims disappear. The Netflix platform has chosen ZFF for a European premiere.
Opening with a Netflix movie
The Festival opened on Thursday with a film proposed by the American platform: “The Swimmers” by Sally El Hosaini. Two Syrian sisters flee their country for Germany, from where they will be able to participate in the Olympic Games in Rio.
Among the other gems in this section, Luca Guadagnino’s road movie “Bones and all” across the United States in the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was in power. He has again transformed the French-American actor Timothée Chalamet who launched 5 years ago in “Call me by your name”.
In “Sound”, a new section dedicated to musical films, viewers will be able to meet the American rapper Machine Gun Kelly, who will present, before his concert at the Hallenstadion, the film “Taurus”, in which he himself embodies a music star
Swiss films in the spotlight
The largest film festival in German-speaking Switzerland does not forget Swiss films. It offers 18, all the sections put together, including the world premiere of “A Forgotten Man” by Genevan Laurent Nègre.
The initiatory comedy “Die goldenen Jahre” (Golden Years) by Barbara Kulcscar is also presented as a world premiere. It features German-speaking actors Esther Gemsch and Stefan Kurt in the lead roles. Alice and her newly retired husband Peter are ready to finally enjoy their new life. But their repressed marital problems come to the surface on a Mediterranean cruise.
Golden Eye: 14 films in the running
Fourteen films are competing in each competition for the Œil d’or endowed with 25,000 francs. The Documentaries competition features 14 films, of which eight are debut films. “The Killing Of A Journalist”, for example, painstakingly reconstructs the context of the 2018 murder of a journalist from the Ringier group in Slovakia.
The Focus competition includes documentaries and fictional films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It is in this section that Swiss films are the most numerous.
This year the ZFF dedicates its “New Horizons” section to Spain. Other sections complete the program, such as #Hashtag “, which focuses on religion.
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The award ceremony will take place on October 1st. Last year, the ZFF registered more than 100,000 spectators.
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