PARIS, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Swedish director Ruben Ostlund, two-times winner of the Palme d’Or on the Cannes Movie Competition, has been named jury president for this yr’s competitors.
“I’m blissful, proud, and humbled to be trusted with the honour of Jury president for this yr’s Competitors on the Competition de Cannes,” stated Ostlund in an announcement.
The director’s movie “Triangle of Disappointment”, winner of final yr’s Palme d’Or for finest image explored notions of magnificence and privilege, sending two fashions on a luxurious cruise — and leaving them stranded on a abandoned island with a handful of the workers and billionaire company.
He additionally received the prize in 2017, for his film “The Sq.”, a satire concerning the artwork world.
The pageant final yr returned to its conventional calendar after a number of years of COVID-19 disruptions. Challenged by the recognition of streaming, the movie trade has struggled to realize again audiences after the pandemic pressured the closure of theatres around the globe and halted manufacturing.
The world’s second-largest cinema operator, Cineworld Group, filed for chapter in September and on Feb. 24 stated it did not discover a purchaser for your entire firm.
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French actor Vincent Lindon presided over final yr’s pageant, which was the seventy fifth anniversary version.
Previous jury presidents, who’re tasked with overseeing the group that judges the movies vying for the pageant’s prestigious prizes, have included U.S. administrators Francis Ford Coppola and Spike Lee, in addition to actors Isabelle Huppert and Gerard Depardieu.
“The cinema has a novel facet,” stated Ostlund. “It makes us replicate otherwise than after we dopamine scroll in entrance of the person screens.”
This yr’s pageant takes place from Might 16 to 27.
Reporting by Mimosa Spencer; Enhancing by Sharon Singleton
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