French actor Vincent Lindon to head jury of next Cannes Film Festival

Actor Vincent Lindon arrives on the pink carpet to advertise the film ‘Avec amour et acharnement’ (Each Sides of the Blade) on the 72nd Berlinale Worldwide Movie Pageant in Berlin, Germany, February 12, 2022. REUTERS/Christian Mang

PARIS, April 26 (Reuters) – French actor Vincent Lindon will preside over the Cannes Movie Pageant’s seventy fifth anniversary version, with a lineup that features Tom Cruise’s Prime Gun sequel and an Elvis biopic by Baz Luhrmann that includes Tom Hanks, the Pageant stated on its web site.

Lindon will comply with U.S. director Spike Lee, who headed the jury final 12 months.

The pageant will run from Could 17-28.

Lindon co-starred in Titane, a physique horror film which explores themes of grief and love, that received the Palme d’Or for greatest movie in 2021.

For his function in The Measure of a Man, Lindon received Greatest Actor on the 2015 Cannes Movie Pageant.

Isabelle Huppert was the final French film star to be jury president, in 2009.

Within the historical past of the Pageant, French celebrities have typically held this function in an anniversary 12 months, corresponding to Yves Montand in 1987 for the fortieth Pageant, Gerard Depardieu in 1993 for the forty fifth, and Isabelle Adjani in 1997 for the fiftieth.

Reporting by Dominique Vidalon, modifying by Tassilo Hummel and Alexandra Hudson

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