Quebec director Xavier Dolan will chair the jury for the “Un Certain Regard” prize at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May, organizers announced Thursday.
The 34-year-old author of “Laurence Anyways” and “Tom on the Farm” is a regular at Cannes, where he won the Jury Prize in 2014 for “Mommy” and the Grand Prize in 2016 for “Juste the end of the world “.
A precocious talent in cinema, Dolan, who completed his first feature film, “I Killed My Mother”, at the age of 19, surprised last summer by announcing that he “no longer wanted to 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 mega-project by Francis Ford Coppola with Adam Driver and Forest Whitaker, “Megalopolis”, the adaptation of “Limonov” by Emmanuel Carrère by the Russian Kirill Serebrennikov, or even a musical comedy by Jacques Audiard in the world of drug trafficking in Mexico. As well as the remake of the sulphurous “Emmanuelle” by Audrey Diwan.
There is also a chance that the new version of Abel Gance’s “Napoleon” will be presented, in its complete version of more than seven hours or in part, at the end of a titanic restoration of this masterpiece of cinema mute.
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