At the 52nd KVIFF, Lambert Wilson will personally present the French film in competition Corporate (dir. Nicolas Silhol)
Leading French actor Lambert Wilson studied acting at the Drama Centre London, and thanks to his perfect English many early roles in his career were in English-language films. In 1977 he appeared in Fred Zinneman’s Julia, and in 1982 he joined Sean Connery in Zinneman’s drama Five Days One Summer. In subsequent years, however, he appeared in films directed by masters of French cinema, including Claude Chabrol (The Blood of Others, 1984) Andrzej Żuławsk (The Public Woman, 1984) and André Téchiné (Rendez-vous, 1985).
He has also worked with renowned English director Peter Greenaway (The Belly of an Architect, 1987), and appeared in Polish legend Andrzej Wajda’s drama The Possessed (1988) and James Ivory’s historical drama Jefferson in Paris (1995). Wilson has appeared in four films by Alain Resnais – Same Old Song (1997), Not on the Lips (2003), Private Fears in Public Places (2006) and You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (2012).
Audiences may also know him from several large Hollywood productions such as the Wachowskis’ Matrix Revolutions and Matrix Reloaded (2011), Michael Radford’s Flawless (2007) and. Mathieu Kassovitz’s Babylon A.D.
Lambert Wilson portrayed the lead in Xavier Beauvois’s Of Gods and Men (2010, winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival), and last year he impressed audiences as Jacques-Yves Cousteau in the biopic Odysseus. Wilson has been nominated for six César Awards.
