Deepika to be on jury of 75th Cannes Film Festival
INDIAN actress Deepika Padukone has been chosen to be part of the jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which awards the coveted Palme d’Or top prize, organisers said last week.
Veteran French actor Vincent Lindon will head the main jury, which will choose the winner from among 21 movies in the main competition at the film fest which runs from May 17 to 28.
Padukone will be joined by British actress and director Rebecca Hall, Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, Italian actress and director Jasmine Trinca, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, French director Ladj Ly, American director Jeff Nichols, and Norwegian director Joachim Trier.
Padukone has more than 30 feature films to her credit; she made her English language film debut as the female lead in xXx: The Return of Xander Cage, costarring with Vin Diesel.
Most recently, she was seen on Gehraiyaan, shown on Amazon Prime. She is working on Yash Raj Films’ Pathaan, co-starring Shah Rukh Khan and John Abraham, with the film set to be released on January 25, 2023.
The line-up for the 75th Cannes film festival is a mix of cult arthouse directors and Hollywood glamour.
Tom Cruise will attend the much-delayed world premiere of Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to his 1986 blockbuster, playing out of competition. And Tom Hanks will be in town for Elvis, in which he co-stars as the rock’n’roll star’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, in the latest from Australian director Baz Luhrmann who previously lit up Cannes with Moulin Rouge! and Gatsby.
In a statement last Tuesday (26), Lindon said he was “extremely proud to be given, amid the upheaval of the many events we are going through in the world, the splendid and heavy task of presiding the jury”.
He said he and his jury would “strive to take good care of the films of the future which all harbour the same secret hope of courage, loyalty and freedom”, Lindon said.
A Ukrainian film will play out of competition – The Natural History of Destruction from director Sergei Loznitsa about the destruction of German cities by Allied bombers in the second World War.