Michael Mann, director of “Heat” and “Revelations”, 17ᵉ Light prize winner

First known for “two cops in Miami”, he then turned Al Pacino, Russel Crowe, Robert de Niro … In addition, by attributing the “Nobel Prize in the 7ᵉ Art” to Michael Mann. Consequently, the Lumière Institute welcomes his cinema “anchored in a strong Hollywood tradition” but also “personal and innovative”.

MIchael Mann will receive the 17ᵉ Lumière Prix. Consequently, in Lyon on October 17, announced the Lumière festival team on Friday July 11. At 82. the director michael mann, director “heat” “revelations”, of Heat and Collateral Will succeed Isabelle Huppert and Wim Wenders, the last two winners of this “Nobel Prize in the 7ᵉ Art”, created in 2009 by Thierry Frémaux, director of the Lumière Institute (and general delegate of the Cannes Festival), “To celebrate a personality for all of her work and the link she has with the history of cinema”.

Michael Mann had his first successes on television. with the cult series Two cops in Miami (1984-1990) of which he was the showrunner-before, almost forty years later, to make the first episode of Tokyo Vice (2022). He is especially one of the greatest American living filmmakers who. “In real independence and sometimes a certain loneliness”, To resume the words of the press release from the Lumière Festival, “Is both anchored in a strong Hollywood tradition and embodies a personal and innovative cinema through its subjects, its approach to staging, michael mann, director “heat” “revelations”, narration and aesthetics”. “Conjugating the requirement of an author to the pleasure of the public”. He had huge critical and commercial successes, both in the thriller (Heat, With the alpine-Robert de Niro clash) that the story of historical adventures (The last of the Mohicans, With Daniel Day-Lewis), the biopic (Ali, with Will Smith) or the political film (Revelation, His masterpiece, with Russell Crowe and Al Pacino). A great stylist, expert in action scenes, he puts as much on realism as on lyricism in flamboyant staging.

In an interview with Telerama In September 2022, he said “Obsessed with proactive characters” : “All the scenes I have directed since the start of my career answer the same michael mann, director “heat” “revelations”, question that each of my characters arises in a loop:” What do I want? ” Whether they are sure of them or convinced to fail, they always act. »» At 82. Michael Mann has not finished acting: he is currently preparing his thirteenth feature film, Heat 2, The rest of his most famous film, adapted from his own (and excellent) novel co -written with Meg Gardiner. He will receive the Light Prize on the eve of the 17ᵉ Light Festival. which will take place from October 11 to 19 in many rooms in the Lyon metropolis.