The filmmaker will replace director Ruben Ostlund in this role, as announced this Thursday, December 14.
He will be the first American filmmaker to take on the role. The Cannes Film Festival announced this Thursday, December 14, that Greta Gerwig will preside over its 77th jury, which runs from May 14 to 25, 2024. barbie thus succeeds Ruben Ostlund in this function. The 40-year-old filmmaker is also the first woman to land the role since Cate Blanchett in 2018, and the youngest since Sophia Loren, aged 31, when she took on the role in 1966. “I have a deep love for movies,” Greta Gerwig announced in the festival’s press release. I like to do them, I like to go to them, I like to talk about them for hours. As a film buff, Cannes has always been the pinnacle of the universal language of film for me.”
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“Representative of the era”.
A choice that imposed itself on the president of the festival, Iris Knobloch, and Thierry Fremo, its chief delegate. “This choice is obvious because Greta Gerwig boldly embodies the renewal of world cinema,” they say. Outside of the 7th art, he also stands as a representative of an era that dissolves boundaries and mixes genres to make reason and humanism triumph. In fact, a feminist fiction film barbie garnered nine Golden Globe nominations and grossed $1.44 billion (€1.3 billion) at the worldwide box office. During her career, Greta Gerwig also directed Lady Bird (2017), Daughters of Dr. March (2020) and prepare an adaptation The Chronicles of Narnia For Netflix.
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Source: Le Figaro
