Goretta to receive Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement
At the 2010 Quartz Swiss Film Awards ceremony, an Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement will be presented to Claude Goretta by actor Jean-Luc Bideau on March 6 in Lucerne.
An emblematic figure of “New Swiss Cinema” of the 1970s, the Genevan director discovered “Free British Cinema” during his studies at the British Film Institute in London. In 1957, with Alain Tanner, he co-directed his debut short film, Nice Time (1957), which won a prize at the Venice Film Festival.
With Tanner, and his friends Michel Soutter, Jean-Louis Roy and Jean-Jacques Lagrange, Goretta founded “Group 5” in 1968. Over the years, he has enjoyed a string of international successes: The Invitation (1973) and The Lacemaker (1977, starring Isabelle Huppert), which were both lauded at Cannes; and If the Sun Never Returns (1987), adapted from C.-F. Ramuz’s novel.
His most recent productions, La Fuite de Monsieur Monde (“Mr World’s Escape”, 2004) and two-part TV drama Sartre, l’Âge des Passions (“Sartre, the Age of Passion”, 2006) were a major hit with Francophone TV audiences.
(Translated from French)
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