Tuesday 16 December 2025 18:15
languages: vostFR locations: Théâtre des Capucins
Across more than half a century, Robert Redford reshaped the idea of the American movie star, combining intelligence, moral gravity, a searching charisma and a humanistic desire to help others - which he also did through the founding of the Sundance Institute and Festival.
Tribute to the American actor-director
His breakthrough in 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid redefined what a leading man could be – not only handsome but also quiet and searching for answers – while the 1970s further deepened this complexity. In The Way We Were, Three Days of the Condor and All the President’s Men, he embodied the contradictions of a nation questioning its own certainties.
With Ordinary People, his debut as a director, Redford turned his gaze inward, exploring family, guilt, and repression with remarkable restraint. To follow Redford’s evolution is to witness the maturing of American film itself: from the romance of possibility to the reckoning of conscience. His measured, luminous, and unwavering presence remains a touchstone of integrity and artistry in an age that often prized neither.
Not taking a risk is a risk. That’s how I see it. If you’re going to take a risk, you have to be prepared if it doesn’t work. You have to have perseverance and a certain gumption and maybe be a little nuts.
Robert Redford
