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VENICE 2013 Jury

Bertolucci’s second time as president

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- The Italian maestro will preside over the jury of the 70th Venice Film Festival (28 August-7 September). As president in 1983, he awarded Jean-Luc Godard

"In a handful of days, I will be given the opportunity to see the most interesting aspects of world cinema. I happily accepted.” These were Bernardo Bertolucci’s words after being nominated to the presidency of the jury in the 70th installation of the International Venice Film Festival (28 August-7 September) which will give out the Golden Lion to the best film, as well as other awards.

Having received a career award in Venice (2007), as well as in Cannes (2011), the great Italian director who was awarded nine Oscars for The Last Emperor,will return to the helm of Venice’s international jury for the second time. The first time was in 1983 when the Golden Lion was given to Prénom Carmen by Jean-Luc Godard. "The festival was celebrating its fortieth anniversary. My jury, which was made up almost exclusively of directors, could only give the award to Godard, to whom we owed so much. Then, I would ask films to provide me with surprise and pleasure. I haven’t changed.”

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Festival director Alberto Barbera underlined the long experience, the inexhaustible curiosity and the fact that “living a cinematographic present in which the director lives with his own masterpieces” makes Bertolucci “the ideal president for the important and delicate role he has so generously agreed to take on.” Barbera added, “for the festival’s seventieth anniversary, we wanted an Italian jury president (the last one had been Dante Ferretti in 2005). Who better than Bernardo Bertolucci?”

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(Translated from Italian)

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