(Paris) A fortnight before the race for the Palme d’Or, the 77e Cannes Film Festival announced on Monday the composition of its jury, which includes Omar Sy, one of the faces of French cinema in the world.
The festival, which will be held from May 14 to 25, has chosen four men and four women who will officiate under the presidency of director Greta Gerwig, a figure of American auteur cinema who became queen of the box office with barbie last year.
At 40, she is the youngest president since Sofia Loren in 1966.
In his jury, is the French actor Omar Sy, 46 years old, who is taking a new step in an exceptional career since his first steps in schoolboy humor (Omar and Fred) until his early career in Hollywood, as an actor and producer. Going through his popular successes in France (Untouchables).
Cannes has chosen one of the stars of a French cinema which aims to be more representative of the diversity of society: Omar Sy was born in the Paris suburbs, in Trappes, to parents who came from the border between Senegal and Mauritania.
The actor, who will debate with the other members of the jury to decide between the 22 films in competition, should cause a sensation on the red carpet: he is both one of the favorite personalities of the French and a popular performer around the world, notably since the success of the Netflix series Lupine.
Dress rehearsal before the Games
At her side will sit the French actress Eva Green, 43, known as well for her roles in France (most recently that of Milady in The three Musketeers) than in Hollywood, with Tim Burton in particular, or alongside Daniel Craig in the James Bond films.
A year after walking the red carpet for Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese, a role for which she was nominated for an Oscar, actress Lily Gladstone, from a Native American background, also joins the jury, of which she is the youngest at 37 years old.
Added to this list is the Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino (The traitor), 54 years old, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda, 61 years old, Palme d’Or in 2018 for A family matterthe Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona (The circle of snowreleased in France on Netflix), 48 years old, the Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, 50 years old, and the Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, 48 years old.
With its entire jury, its 22 films in competition to succeed Anatomy of a fall by Justine Triet, Palme d’Or in 2023, and more than a hundred films announced, including in the parallel selections, the great world cinema festival is now ready to open.
two months before the Olympic Games, this major event will be a dress rehearsal in terms of security for the authorities.
In addition to the tens of thousands of festival-goers, this year again, very big names in cinema are expected there: the creator of Star Wars, Georges Lucas, for an honorary Palme d’Or, the godfather of Hollywood Francis Ford Coppola, in quest for a third Palme for Megalopolisstar actors like Demi Moore, Emma Stone, Selena Gomez, Adam Driver and Richard Gere.
The start will be given on the evening of May 14 with the opening ceremony, presented by Camille Cottin, and the screening of Quentin Dupieux’s latest comedy, with Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon and Louis Garrel, The second actwhich is released at the same time in theaters.