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La Mostra reserves a Golden Lion for Jamie Lee Curtis for his entire career

2021-07-01T15:57:26.984Z


The American actress, heroine of A Fish Named Wanda and the horrific Halloween saga, will receive an honorary award from the Venice Film Festival in September.


Like father, like son.

Jamie Lee Curtis, the daughter of Janet Leigh (

Psychosis

) and Tony Curtis (

Some like it hot

), will receive a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival next September which will honor her entire film career.

And, like a party dedicated to post-confinement, this same honorary award will be awarded during the 78th edition of the Venetian fortnight to the great Italian actor Roberto Benigni, the director of the masterpiece

La Vie est belle

, which won three times Oscar in 1999.

Read also: Venice Film Festival: Roberto Benigni will receive the Golden Lion for his entire career

The organizing committee of the Mostra has indicated that the third installment of

David Gordon Green's

Halloween Kills

film series

, in which Jamie Lee Curtis plays the lead role, will be screened out of competition.

This projection has symbolic value since the American actress took her first steps in the cinema in the film "

Halloween: The Night of the Masks

" by John Carpenter in 1978. Perfect in the role of the babysitter Laurie Strode, victim of a horrific storyline, she fell prey to a serial killer named Michael Myers.

Read also: Venice Film Festival: South Korean director Bong Joon-ho will chair the jury

The director of the great Venetian meeting Alberto Barbera welcomed the Golden Lion awarded to Jamie Lee Curtis: “

She belongs to this lineage of these great Hollywood actors who are the soul of our profession.

"

The heroine of

A Fish Called Wanda

(1988), the comedy by Charles Crichton that made her famous the world over, immediately reacted with joy to the Mostra's decision to give her this prestigious award: "

I am very honored to receive this Golden Lion. The Festival had the good idea to plan the last

Halloween.

It's a gift for me, because you know I started in 1978 with the character of Laurie Strode, the courageous heroine of this scary series. I will receive this trophy on behalf of all women who resist adversity and refuse to give in to fear.

"

The Jury of the Venice Film Festival, which will be held from September 4 to 11, 2021, will be chaired this year by South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, Palme d'Or 2019 for his film

Parasite

.

Halloween: The night of the masks

by John Carpenter, in 1978, with Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis ...

Source: lefigaro

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