The acclaimed US film-maker David Lynch has been awarded France’s top civilian honour, the Legion d’Honneur.
Lynch is famed for productions such as “The Elephant Man” and “Mulholland Drive”, plus cult hit TV series “Twin Peaks”.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy hailed his eclectic “genius”. Lynch replied in halting French: “My French is poor, but my heart is rich today thanks to you.”
Lynch has film credits including work as a director, writer, producer, actor, cinematographer and composer.
He was also nominated for four Oscars - twice for “The Elephant Man” and once each for “Mulholland Drive” and “Blue Velvet”.
Lynch was accompanied by his partner, actress Emily Stofle, and was flanked at the ceremony by director Roman Polanski, plus actresses Fanny Ardant and Charlotte Rampling.
“It’s no secret that I love France, the art-making, art-loving and art-supporting people of France,” he said.
Mr Sarkozy told the director that seeing “The Elephant Man” as a teenager had “definitively convinced” him that “cinema was a highly important matter”.
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Lynch is famed for productions such as “The Elephant Man” and “Mulholland Drive”, plus cult hit TV series “Twin Peaks”.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy hailed his eclectic “genius”. Lynch replied in halting French: “My French is poor, but my heart is rich today thanks to you.”
Lynch has film credits including work as a director, writer, producer, actor, cinematographer and composer.
He was also nominated for four Oscars - twice for “The Elephant Man” and once each for “Mulholland Drive” and “Blue Velvet”.
Lynch was accompanied by his partner, actress Emily Stofle, and was flanked at the ceremony by director Roman Polanski, plus actresses Fanny Ardant and Charlotte Rampling.
“It’s no secret that I love France, the art-making, art-loving and art-supporting people of France,” he said.
Mr Sarkozy told the director that seeing “The Elephant Man” as a teenager had “definitively convinced” him that “cinema was a highly important matter”.
Text © BBC NEWS
2 comments:
I loved "Twin Peaks" in its day.
Heard that Lynch's latest was a typically weeeeeird meisterwork which I must attempt to see sometime. If I can work out what the hell is going on. His films have become progressively more and more indecipherable!
I still think "Twin Peaks" is the best drama series to come out of America, certainly one of the most inventive!
Beneath the perceived indecipherability, though, don't you think Lynch's work always contains underlying truths concerning the real nature of humanity?
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