Chiara Mastroianni will be mistress of ceremonies

Chiara Mastroianni was appointed, Friday April 14, mistress of ceremonies of the 76th Cannes Film Festival. Accustomed to the Croisette and a key figure in French auteur cinema, the actress won the Un Certain Regard interpretation prize for her role in Room 212 by Christophe Honoré in 2019, eleven years after being part of the feature film jury.

The daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni “represents the elegance, audacity and intelligence of a cinema open to the world“, underline in a press release Brut and France TV, the official partners of the festival, which will broadcast the ceremonies live. Chiara Mastroianni succeeds in this role to another French actress, Virginie Efira.

The official selection of the festival was announced on Thursday, marked in particular by the presence of six directors, unheard of. Three French films are in competition: Last Summer by Catherine Breillat, Anatomy of a fall by Justine Triet, and The passion of Dodin Bouffant by Tran Anh Hung.

Five weeks before the start of the race for the Palme d’Or, the festival should extend its list of films in competition, as well as reveal the composition of the jury, of which we only know the president, the Swedish director Ruben Östlund. , Palme d’or last year with his film Without filter.