Actress Irène Jacob receives the Leopard Club Award

The French-Swiss actress Irène Jacob will be honored with the Leopard Club Award at the 77th Locarno Film Festival. She will receive the award on August 9 on the Piazza Grande. In her honor, the film "Trois Couleurs : Rouge" (1994) by Krzysztof Kieślowski will also be shown on the evening of the award ceremony; the following day, she will present herself to the audience at a panel discussion. Do you want to read our weekly top stories? Subscribe here. Over the course of her career, Irène Jacob has worked with directors such as Krzysztof Kieślowski, Wim Wenders, Theo Angelopoulos and Agnieszka Holland; she has also acted for commercial directors such as John Badham and Stuart Baird. This list alone shows that Jacob "switches effortlessly between Hollywood action films and the quiet, late films of important European filmmakers", as stated in a press release issued by the Locarno Film Festival on Tuesday. + Billionaire appointed Locarno Film Festival president Her collaboration with ...