After her record-breaking year at the global box office with Barbie (the biggest hit of 2023 with $1.4 billion and more than 5.8 million releases in France), director Greta Gerwig, barely 40 years old, is supporting the role of the American president. The jury of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, which will be held from May 14 to 25, 2024.
“Revival of world cinema”
This nomination is obvious to festival president Iris Knobloch and its general delegate Thierry Fremaux, who say in a press release that the American filmmaker “It boldly embodies the renewal of world cinema. (…) Beyond the 7th art, it also appears as a representative of an era that abolishes boundaries and mixes genres to triumph over intelligence and humanism.”.
Skin records
In this role as President of the Cannes Jury, Greta Gerwig His name was recorded in the history of the festival, as he becomes the second director (after Jane Campion in 2014), the second American (after Olivia de Havilland in 1965), the second youngest person (after Sophia Loren in 1966) and especially the first American filmmaker to hold this position occupied.
Greta Gerwig at Cannes 2017 for ‘The Meyerowitz Stories’
“I love movies very much. I love making them, I love watching them, I love talking about them for hours”He admits in the press release. “As a film buff, Cannes has always been the pinnacle of what the universal language of movies can represent for me.
Being vulnerable, sitting in a dark room full of strangers watching a new movie is my favorite thing to do. I am excited, excited and humbled to be President of the Cannes Film Festival Jury. I can’t wait for the trips ahead!”
A major figure in indie cinema
Film director, screenwriter, playwright and actor, Greta Gerwig He was spotted in the 2007 film Hannah Takes the Stairs, a film he co-wrote.
In 2008, still with Joe Swanberg, he wrote, starred in and directed the drama Nights and Weekends, and later became one of the representatives of “mumblecore”, a movement in US indie cinema that combines crash performances with a partially improvised and driven mood. . People in their thirties.
Alternating roles between independent films (for Whit Stellman, Todd Solondz or Pablo Larraín) and other mainstream productions (Sex Friends, With Love in Rome), Greta Gerwig is particularly recognized for her fruitful collaboration with her partner Noah Baumbach: Frances Ha, Mistress America. and white noise.
The new darling of US indie cinema, in 2017 she released her first feature, Lady Bird. Directed by Saoirse Ronan, this coming-of-age story chronicles a young woman’s entry into the adult world with humor, tenderness and a touch of sadness.
It earned five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. Two years later, the director adapted “The Four Daughters of Dr. Marsh” into a modern version, with six Oscar nominations.
Narnia after Barbie!
In 2023, he will succeed Barbie An a priori impossible bet: Bringing Mattel’s world to the big screen and live-action, bringing a decidedly pop touch and a feminist message that addresses the iconic doll’s paradox between a symbol of emancipation and a female incarnation.
Directed by Margot “Barbie” Robbie and Ryan “Ken” Gosling, the film is a critical, public, artistic and musical triumph and the first all-female feature film to cross the billion dollar mark worldwide.
Greta Gerwig He is currently preparing an ambitious fantasy project: a new adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia for Netflix, which he claims “Being scared is a good place to start”.
But before crossing the wardrobe, he will walk the Croisette in 2024 to head the jury for the film that will succeed Justin Triet’s Anatomie d’une Chute at the Palme d’Or in May 2023.
Anatomy of the Fall, Palme d’Or 2023
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