Claire Denis will be feted with the honorary Golden Carriage (Carrosse d’Or) award at the upcoming edition of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, its parent body the French Directors’ Guild (SRF) has announced.
Launched in 2002, the prize celebrates filmmakers whose liberated vision and directing style has “deeply marked” cinema.
“From Chocolat to Stars at Noon, from Beau Travail to High Life, your films offer a cinema that breathes, touches, and questions, and in which each shot becomes a space for experience and emotion, and where the world reveals itself in all its complexity and power,” the SRF board wrote in its traditional public letter setting out its motivations for selecting the honoree.
“Your directing, with its sensory precision and radical freedom, has never ceased to reinvent itself, rejecting both aesthetic conventions and conventional narratives. Film after film, you have built a cinema of friction and uncertainty, where the
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