Due to premiere his upcoming anthology film ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar‘ at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, on September 1st, Wes Anderson will receive the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker 2023 Award.
Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award, dedicated to a personality who has made a particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industry.
Anderson’s work as filmmaker has been described by the Director of the Venice Film Festival, Alberto Barbera saying: โWes 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. From the memorable and poignant soundtracks (often inspired by the 1960s) to the extravagant costumes that reflect the characters’ psyche, each detail and the composition of every single shot is painstakingly conceived and masterfully carried out. 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.โ
While Cyrille Vigneron President and CEO of Cartier International, also lauded the director’s work saying that, โ…whether his stories take us to India, New England, Imaginary Hungary, Paris or elsewhere, he brings us in his own imaginary, poetic and truly human world. Everything is fictitious, bizarre, hilarious, yet his characters and heroes touch our heart. The scenography, costumes and scenes have incredible precision in which we immerse ourselves totally and unconditionally. Wes Andersonโs professional community includes some of the most famous and accomplished actresses and actors of the world who morph into his creations to become incredible characters, heroes and villains. His movies are formal art pieces in their construction. Through this endless creativity he continuously shares with us a truly humanistic view on the world. The more the world becomes dangerous, crazy, uncertain, the more his world looks like a safe place to be, and to look forward to. We are very happy and honoured to celebrate him with the Cartier glory to the filmmaker awardโ.
Synopsis of ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’
A wealthy man becomes aware of a spiritual teacher who possesses the extraordinary ability to perceive without relying on his visual senses. Motivated by his desire to gain an unfair advantage in gambling, the rich man embarks on a journey to acquire this unique skill.
It is said that the adaptation remains remarkably true to Roald Dahl’s captivating short story.
