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Melvil Poupaud Honored With French Cinema Award at Starry Ministry of Culture Ceremony
Actor Melvil Poupaud claimed Unifrance's French Cinema Award at star-studded ceremony at France's Ministry of Culture on Thursday.
Reflecting on his four decades in front of the lens – a winding path that kicked off at age 10 with a key role in Raúl Ruiz’s 1983 fantasy “City of Pirates,” and has since paired the star with local auteurs Justine Triet, Arnaud Desplechin, and Francois Ozon, as well global standouts like James Ivory, Xavier Dolan and the Wachowskis – Poupaud spoke in earnest and self-effacing terms about his winding career. A teeming room, filled with family, friends, press, politicos, admirers and close collaborators like Chiara Mastroianni and Benjamin Biolay were eager to show their support in turn. “Melvil knows cinema inside and out,” director Valerie Donzelli (who directed Poupaud in last year’s Cannes acclaimed “Just the Two of Us”) told Variety.
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