(Paris) The actor Vincent Lindon, prize for interpretation in 2015 and actor in Titaniumthe Palme d’or 2021, will be the president of the jury of the 75and Cannes Film Festival to be held from May 17 to 28 on the Croisette, the organizers announced in a press release on Tuesday.
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He will take over from American director Spike Lee who, with his jury, crowned the film by Frenchwoman Julia Ducournau in July 2021.
“It is an immense honor and a very great pride to be entrusted, in the midst of the tumult of the many events that we are going through in the world, with the splendid and heavy task of presiding over the Jury of the 75and Cannes International Film Festival,” said Vincent Lindon, quoted in the statement.
This announcement comes at the end of a long suspense: usually, the president of the jury is known at the beginning of the year, with the jury unveiled a few weeks before the festival.
With the restart of post-pandemic cinema and the rise of series, “all the artists work”, underlined mid-April Thierry Frémaux, the general delegate of the festival, to justify this jostled calendar.
Vincent Lindon will have to choose the Palme d’or from the 21 films in competition. He will be supported by eight jurors (four women, four men).
Among them, the British actress Rebecca Hall, discovered in Vicky Christina BarcelonaIranian director Asghar Farhadi (A heroGrand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival 2021) and the Frenchman Ladj Ly (Wretchedjury prize 2019).