French actress Isabelle Huppert will be the president of the International Jury of the Competition at the 81st Venice International Film Festival (August 28 - September 7), which will assign the Golden Lion for Best Film, as well as other official awards. In accepting the proposal, Isabelle Huppert said: “There is a long and beautiful history between the Festival and I. Becoming a privileged spectator is an honor. More than ever, cinema is a promise. The promise to escape, to disrupt, to surprise, to take a good look at the world, united in the differences of our tastes and ideas”. Isabelle Huppert had already presided over the Cannes competition jury in 2009.

Isabelle Huppert she gained her first Academy Award nomination in 2017 for Elle [+lire aussi :
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The actress, born in 1953, won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978 for Violette by Claude Chabrol. She worked with Chabrol in seven other films and won the Coppa Volpi for best actress at the Venice Film Festival twice with Story of Women (1988) and La Cérémonie (1995), for which she also obtained her first César Award. She has been seen recently in this year's Berlinale competitor A Traveler's Needs by South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo, and Sidonie in Japan [+lire aussi :
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Venice Film Festival director Alberto Barbera commented: “Isabelle Huppert is an immense actress, demanding, curious and of great generosity. The muse of numerous great filmmakers, she has never shirked the invitation of young or not-so-famous directors who have seen in her the ideal interpreter of their stories. Her enormous willingness to constantly put herself on the line, a sign of her uncommon intelligence, together with her ability to look at cinema beyond geographic and mental boundaries, make her an ideal President of the Jury in a festival open to the entire world such as the Venice Film Festival. We are very grateful to her for accepting the position, aware of the many commitments in film and theater that she will face in the coming months”.