The French star Juliette Binoche She has been appointed president of the International Jury of the Cannes 2025 Film Festival.
The actress happens to the director of Barbie, Greta Gerwigin the presidential position and will supervise the group of film professionals who will choose the winner of this year’s gold palm.
Binoche debuted in Cannes exactly 40 years ago, with the premiere of Rendez-Vousof André Téchinéin 1985. It was his first important role in a film and turned it into a star. “I was born at the Cannes Festival,” I would say later.
Juliette Binoche’s relationship and the Cannes Festival
Binoche has been a usual Cannes Michael Haneke (Unknown code, cache) and David Cronenberg (Cosmopolis), Krzysztof Kielowski (Three colors: red), Olivier Assayas (The clouds of Sils Maria), Claire Denis (That between the sun) and ANH HUNG Tran (The taste of things). He won the honor of Cannes for the best actress in 2010 for his role as antiquarian in Certified copy of Abbas Kiarostami.
“In 1985 I first climbed the stairs with the enthusiasm and uncertainty of a young actress; I never imagined that I would return 40 years later in the honorary role of president of the jury, ”said Binoche in a statement. “I appreciate privilege, responsibility and the absolute need for humility.”
In addition to Cannes’ honor, Binoche is the only actress who has won the Best Actress Award in the three main European festivals (Cannes, Venice, Berlin), taking the Volpi Cup in Venice in 1994 for three colors: Kielowski blue and Berlin silver bear for his performance as a nurse of World War II in the English patient of Anthony Minghella, the role that would also be worth a Bafta and an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
More recently, Binoche played Coco Chanel in the Todd A. Kessler series for Appletv+, The New Look, and returned to work with his co -star from The English Patient, Ralph Fiennesfor The returnthe rudimentary version of Uberto Pasolini of Homer’s Odyssey. Last year, she replaced the Polish director Agnieszka Holland as president of the European Film Academy.
The 78th Cannes International Film Festival will be held from May 13 to 24, 2025.
Source: Ambito
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