Culture | 03/07/2015
Karlovy Vary (R.Czech), 3 jul (EFE).- American actor Richard Gere was awarded the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival today for his contribution to world cinematography., during the inauguration of the 50 edition of the contest.
"Esto es realmente un honor, y nunca me acostumbro a estas cosas", said Gere after receiving the statuette from the Moser house.
Confesó que no ha dejado de ponerse nervioso ante este tipo de situaciones porque no sabe cual será su "respuesta emocional".
"Mi principal oficio es ser padre, and then there's this thing I've been doing 40 años", dijo el protagonista de "Pretty Woman" that now, con 65 years, shares custody of his son Homer, of 15 years, with his still wife, Carey Lowell, from whom he lives separately while his divorce is being processed.
The activist for the self-determination of Tibet recalled that he began with cinema at 19 years.
"Mucho tiempo. but here I am, in this amazing place, with you, que son estupendos", pointed out.
Gere, a devout buddhist, glosó después un dicho judío de que "Dios creó al hombre y a la mujer porque amaba las historias".
"Aquí hay millones de historias", he said, referring to the Czech audience who followed the opening gala of the festival live on television, which this time celebrates its half century of existence..
For Gere, "éste es un momento del tiempo en que estas historias se juntan, because we are part of an interconnected universe, through movies, algo que cambió mi vida".
En este "universo de responsabilidad" what is cinema, exhortó a construir "una nueva historia", la "historia que queremos".
"Hagamos una pacífica, generous, gentle, sexy, fun. Una que nos guste a todos", apostille.
He also had affectionate words for the late former Czechoslovak president Vaclav Havel., whose wife, Dagmar, I was in the audience, and towards the spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, on the occasion of his next 80 birthday.
Born in Philadelphia in 1949, Gere no llegó a terminar los estudios superiores para dedicarse a interpretar papeles en el musical "Grease" and debut, shortly after, en la gran pantalla con "Report to the Commissioner" (1975).
Su buen aspecto físico es un factor que marcó muchos de sus papeles de galán en filmes como en "Buscando al Sr. Goodbar" (1977), "American Gigolo" (1980) y "Entre dos mujeres" (1994).
Awarded with numerous awards, including the Golden Globe, Gere has a long list of films he starred in, entre las que destacan "Pretty Woman" (1990), "Mr. Jones" (1993), "Novia a la fuga" (1999), "Otoño en Nueva York" (2000) y "¿We dance?" (2004).
During his stay in Karlovy Vary Gere will present two of his latest works: el drama psicológico "Time out of mind", with which the festival opens, y el drama "Franny", directed by Andrew Renzi.
At the gala held at the Karlovy Vary film festival, the festival presented a retrospective of his latest 50 years that and the more than a thousand people applauded the architects, President Jiri Bartoska and former artistic director Eva Zaoralova.
