Paul Vecchiali, Raymond Chirat award 2016
PostED ON OCTOBER 9, 2016 AT 5PM
At Le Passage restaurant, in the presence of Quentin Tarantino, Line Renaud, Françoise Arnoul, Jerry Schatzberg, Virginia Efira, Jerzy Skolimowsky and Agnès Varda, as wells as Lyonnais pillars of cinema Mijo Chirat, Bertrand Tavernier and Bernard Chardère, Thierry Frémaux presented the Raymond Chirat award 2016 to filmmaker, producer, writer, and also film historian Paul Vecchiali, author of L'Encinécoplédie, a subjective dictionary of cinema.
Thierry Frémaux was the first to pay tribute to Raymond Chirat, who recently passed away, justly recalling how the illuminating presence of such a personality had shaped his life as a man of film. Accepting the award, Paul Vecchiali also reiterated the importance of Chirat's actions for preserving the intelligent memory of cinema. Chirat was a friend, an ally, a partner with whom Vecchiali had exchanged cinematographic opinions on a regular basis. A presence that so counted for the director of "Femmes femmes," that he concluded his brief, concise speech by saying, "I do not believe you are absent, dear Raymond Chirat."
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