Venice Film Festival: Marco Bellocchio Receives the Robert Bresson Award
Marco Bellocchio will receive the 25th Robert Bresson Award.
The award ceremony will take place on Saturday, August 31, at 12:30 p.m., at the Italian Pavilion – Sala Tropicana 1 at the Hotel Excelsior, during the 81st Venice International Film Festival.
The award, presented by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo and Rivista del Cinematografo with the patronage of the Dicastery for Culture and Education and the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See, is given to a director who has provided a significant testimony, with sincerity and intensity, of the challenging journey in search of the spiritual meaning of life. Last May 21, during the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, the Special Robert Bresson Award was presented to Eugène Green to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of the director of Au Hasard Balthazar and the establishment of the award named in his honor.
The award to be presented in Venice, crafted and donated by Pianegonda, represents a tribute to the inexhaustible essence of the work of one of the most influential directors of our time, Marco Bellocchio, who has captured the attention of both audiences and critics with innovative and provocative works.
With the Robert Bresson Award, the name of Marco Bellocchio is placed alongside that of a champion of faith-based cinema, like the French filmmaker, because, as stated in the motivation: “Reality as it is does not suffice, they both seem to suggest. It must be opened with the scalpel of cinema so that the invisible may flow, manifesting as a mystery of light and shadow. On the inclined plane of the machinations of history – rich in eschatological accents in Bresson, more earthly in Bellocchio – the cinema of these two giants never slides down but climbs up, seeking that freedom that overcomes every gravity, even unto death. And the cross is the key iconographic element that surprisingly drives them both: where the screen curves in the glow of Grace in Bresson. In life that is unstuck, liberated by the prayer of a child, in Bellocchio.”
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Marco Bellocchio will receive the 25th Robert Bresson Award.
The award ceremony will take place on Saturday, August 31, at 12:30 p.m., at the Italian Pavilion – Sala Tropicana 1 at the Hotel Excelsior, during the 81st Venice International Film Festival.
The award, presented by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo and Rivista del Cinematografo with the patronage of the Dicastery for Culture and Education and the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See, is given to a director who has provided a significant testimony, with sincerity and intensity, of the challenging journey in search of the spiritual meaning of life. Last May 21, during the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, the Special Robert Bresson Award was presented to Eugène Green to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of the director of Au Hasard Balthazar and the establishment of the award named in his honor.
The award to be presented in Venice, crafted and donated by Pianegonda, represents a tribute to the inexhaustible essence of the work of one of the most influential directors of our time, Marco Bellocchio, who has captured the attention of both audiences and critics with innovative and provocative works.
With the Robert Bresson Award, the name of Marco Bellocchio is placed alongside that of a champion of faith-based cinema, like the French filmmaker, because, as stated in the motivation: “Reality as it is does not suffice, they both seem to suggest. It must be opened with the scalpel of cinema so that the invisible may flow, manifesting as a mystery of light and shadow. On the inclined plane of the machinations of history – rich in eschatological accents in Bresson, more earthly in Bellocchio – the cinema of these two giants never slides down but climbs up, seeking that freedom that overcomes every gravity, even unto death. And the cross is the key iconographic element that surprisingly drives them both: where the screen curves in the glow of Grace in Bresson. In life that is unstuck, liberated by the prayer of a child, in Bellocchio.”
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