Coen Brothers Bring Their Trademark Humor to Lumière Award Ceremony With a Profane Thank-You to Cinema’s Inventors

Filed by Vivien Star

To the sound of the Gipsy Kings’ Spanish-language rendition of “Hotel California,” Joel and Ethan Coen took the stage at Lyon’s Lumière Film Festival on Friday evening to receive the Lumière Award, celebrating four decades of filmmaking with a characteristically irreverent tribute to the inventors of cinema. “Thank you to the Lumières for inventing the […]