U.S. actress Elle Fanning, French graphic novelist Enki Bilal and the Oscar-nominated director of “The Favourite”, Yorgos Lanthimos, would be among jury members at the Cannes Film Festival next month, the organisers said on Monday.
The world’s biggest cinema showcase would kick-off on the French Riviera on May 14 to end on May 25.
The Mexican director, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, would be presiding over the panel that would decide on prizes, including the top Palme D’Or award.
Split between four men and four women, the jury for the festival’s 72nd edition would also include Pawel Pawlikowski, the Polish filmmaker and screenwriter.
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He was named best director at Cannes last year for the impossible love story “Cold War”.
Also, Burkina Faso’s Maimouna N’Diay , who had directed documentaries and acted in films such as Otar Iosseliani’s “Chasing Butterflies” would also sit on the panel, alongside two other female directors.
Kelly Reichardt of the United States, whose “Wendy and Lucy” starring Michelle Williams was a contender for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard award in 2008, directed 2016’s “Certain Women”.
Italy’s Alicia Rohrwacher, another member of the jury, won the best screenplay at Cannes last year for her film “Happy as Lazzaro”, a satirical fable about a peasant family.
French filmmaker, Robin Campillo, who took Cannes by storm in 2017 with “120 BPM – Beats Per Minute”, winning the Grand Prix for his movie about an AIDS activist, would complete the line-up.
It would also include Elle Fanning, best known for his Nikopol trilogy of science fiction novels, had also directed feature films, including 2004’s “Immortal”, the organisers said.
Fanning, who started working on movies as a child, and had also starred in several films in competition at Cannes in recent years, including “The Beguiled” by Sofia Coppola in 2017.
The May 14-25 festival would kick off with the U.S. director Jim Jarmusch’s latest film, “The Dead Don’t Die”. (NAN)