The actor Vincent Lindon, prize for interpretation in 2015 and actor in "Titane", the Palme d'or 2021, will be the president of the jury of the 75th Cannes Film Festival, which will be held from May 17 to 28 on the Croisette, have announced, Tuesday, April 26, the organizers in a press release.
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 multiple events that we are going through in the world, with the splendid and heavy task of presiding over the jury of the 75th Cannes International Film Festival", said Vincent Lindon, quoted in the press release.
long suspense
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 are working”, 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 Barcelona", the Iranian director Asghar Farhadi ("A Hero", Grand Prix of the Festival in 2021) and the French Ladj Ly ("Les miserables", jury prize 2019).
With AFP
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