(Paris) Quebec director Xavier Dolan will chair the jury of the Un certain regard section at 77e Cannes Film Festival in May, organizers announced Thursday.
The author of Laurence Anyways And Tom on the farmaged 34, is a regular at Cannes, where he won the Jury Prize in 2014 for Mommy and the Grand Prix in 2016 for Just the end of the world.
A precocious film talent, Dolan, who completed his first feature film, I killed my motherat the age of 19, surprised people last summer by announcing that he “no longer had the desire or the strength” to make films.
Un certain regard is the main section parallel to the official competition in Cannes, dedicated to auteur and discovery cinema.
The festival added that it would present its official selection on April 11.
Among the most anticipated films, and which could possibly be selected, a megaproject by Francis Ford Coppola with Adam Driver and Forest Whitaker, Megalopolisthe adaptation of Limonov by Emmanuel Carrère by the Russian Kirill Serebrennikov, or a musical comedy by Jacques Audiard in the world of drug trafficking in Mexico. As well as the remake sulfurous Emmanuelle signed Audrey Diwan.
There is also a chance that the new version of the Napoleon by Abel Gance, in its full version of more than seven hours or in part, at the end of a titanic restoration of this masterpiece of silent cinema.