Filmmaker Wes Anderson will be honoured with Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the upcoming Venice International Film Festival. The director will be receiving his recognition on September 1.
The Cartier Glory award is given as a symbol of respecting film personalities who contributed to film industry. Alberto Barbera, the festival's director, was quoted as saying by The Hollywood Reporter, "Wes Anderson is one of the few directors whose unique and unmistakable style can be recognized with just one frame. His formal universe harks back to a childlike and visionary aesthetic, dominated by pastel colors and obsessive care in preparing strictly symmetrical sequences populated by misfit dreamers who are incurably romantic and cheerful…. The worlds the director creates are plausible and yet completely imaginary and fictitious, buttressed by surreal humor and a disconcerting taste for the vicissitudes of maladjusted families, absent fathers, and imperturbable mothers. Eccentric and highly idiomatic cinema that is always perfectly entertaining and enjoyable.”
It is to be noted that the film festival will also have a world premiere of Anderson's upcoming film The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar. The film, which has a runtime of 37 minutes, stars Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley, and Richard Ayoade. It is inspired from author Roald Dahl's work. Anderson’s last directorial was Asteroid City.
The 80th Venice International Film Festival runs from August 30 to September 9.
