(ANSA) - VENICE, 09 AUGUST - The Venice Biennale and Cartier announce that the British director RidleyScott (Il gladiatore, Blade Runner, Alien) has been awarded the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker award at the 78th International Film Festival (1- September 11, 2021), dedicated to a personality that has marked contemporary cinema in a particularly original way. Delivery on Friday 10 September in the Sala Grande (Palazzo delCinema) at 9.15 pm, before the Out of Competition screening of his new film, The Last Duel, with Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, Ben Affleck. The Last Duel is a tale of betrayal and revenge that shows the brutality of the 14th century in France, produced by 20th Century Studios. "The personal approach to genre cinema, able to reconcile the needs of the show,the expectations of the great audience and the demands of the critics, is the element that most characterizes Ridley Scott's cinema ", underlines the director of the exhibition Alberto Barbera. Even if he had directed just one film, the English director would still have rightfully entered the Olympus of the great filmmakers of contemporary cinema. thanks to Blade Runner, the film that has most influenced modern science fiction by making school in the decades to come ".the film that has most influenced modern science fiction making school in the decades to come ".the film that has most influenced modern science fiction making school in the decades to come ".
In an amazing and prolific career, "which counts just under thirty titles made with an impressive frequency - he continued - Scott has shown that he can cross the most disparate genres, grafting new lymph in each of them", Barbera emphasizes, citing the " unquestionable merits "of the director," the extraordinary visual talent and pictorial taste he has shown, in the service of creating sumptuous and graphically majestic Baroque images, accompanied by a rare and precious skill in directing the actors ". (HANDLE).
