Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong will join Juliette Binoche at the Croisetten, the Cannes Film Festival announced today. Alongside the two American actors, Payal Kapadia, Alba Rohrwacher, Hong Sangso, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi and Carlos Reygadas will also be on the jury on the way of binoche. The 78th festival will take place May 13 – 24.
The jury will determine the winner of the festival’s top prize, Palme d’Or, to one of the 21 films in the competition. The winners will be announced on Saturday, May 24. Last year, the jury led by Greta Gerwig Sean Bakers “Anora” awarded the Palme and it was of course to win the best picture and a scad of other Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Mikey Madison.
Several of the lawyers are Cannes veterans: Indian director Kapadia won the Grand Prix last year for “everything we imagine as light”; Italian actress Rohrwacher has participated in the festival several times, often in support of films she did with her filmmaker sister, Alice Rohrwacher (“The Wonders,” “La Chimera”); Hamadi is back after his documentary “Downstream to Kinshasa” became the first Congolese film in the official selection of 2020; And South Korea’s Sangsoo and Mexico’s Reygadas return after premiering several films in Cannes over the years and collecting several awards. Finally, Strong participated in last year’s festival for the premiere of “The Apprentice”, which got him a supportive actor Oscar nomination.
Among previously announced Movies in the main competition are Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme”, Richard Linklater’s “New Wave”, “Jeunes Mères” from the Dardenne brothers, Julia Ducournaus “Alpha”, Lynne Ramsay “Die My Love” and “Affeksjonsverdi” (“Sentimentaldi” (“Sentimentaldi” (“
The director’s debut from two American actors will play in the UN’s some respects: Scarlett Johansson’s “Eleanor the Great” and Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water.” Ethan Coen’s “Honey, don’t!” Will premiere in the midnight category, while “highest to lowest”, the latest Spike Lee Joint and “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” will play out of the competition.
