Cannes Film Festival announced on Monday that the Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche has been appointed president of The Main Competition Jury, announced his lifelong “Love Affair with the camera. The 78th edition of the festival will go from May 24 to 24.
Binoche, 60, is the winner of best actress prices from all three major international film festivals (Cannes, Venice and Berlin). She first went on the Cannes Red mat with her early role in André Téchiné’s “Rendez-Vous”, which caused a movement at Cannes 40 years ago.
The Paris-born actress quickly made her name as an international star and appears in acclaimed French and English-language drama as “the unbearable ease of being”, “three colors: blue”, “injuries” and “the English patient”, “for Which she won an Oscar and a Bafta in 1997.
“I look forward to sharing (my) life experiences with the members of the jury and the public,” Binoche said in a statement. “In 1985 I went up (Cannes Theater) steps for the first time with a young actor’s enthusiasm and uncertainty; I never imagined that I would return 40 years later in the role of the jury president. I appreciate the privilege, the responsibility and the absolute need for humility. “
Binoche is the first French actress who led the jury since Isabelle Huppert in 2009. After Greta Gerwig’s presidency last yearThe selection of binoche marks the second time that two women have led the jury for consecutive years since Olivia de Havilland in 1965 and Sophia Loren in 1966.
The Cannes President leads jury consultations for the festival’s official selection and receives two votes when voting for prices, including Palme d’Or. This is not binoche’s first time in the position of a big movie party. In 2019, she served as a jury president at the Berlin Film Festival.
During his career with four decades, the actress’s credits also include an Oscar-nominated role in “Chocolat” and movies such as “Caché”, “Clouds of Sils Maria”, “Certified Copy”, “The Widow of Saint-Pierre,” “The Taste of Things “and 2014’s” Godzilla “, a rare Hollywood company. “Return”, who plays in theaters now.
Binoche is known for its emotional honesty on the screen. In a 2023 Profile for ThewrapShe was asked about her desire to be vulnerable in character.
“Every time it must be scary,” she said. “I mean – that is scary. Being truthful means going down to a place that is very intimate, which belongs to your experience and your education, but which is also transformed. Throw the education, throw ideas away to really be in question: what am I? What do I feel? What makes sense to me? “
She added, “The feeling is very liberating, because you are not trying to hold on to things. It’s about experiencing this very humble place. And the not knowing place is the best in a way. Actors really get back to that place for I don’t know. It is about giving something you don’t know. ”
