“Art Remains”: Juliet Binoch, Jury President, opens the skin in 2025 in a strong word

In the four decades “Sharpness and Talent” (For the quotation of the ceremonies master Lauren Lafit), Juliet Binoche was awarded an Oscar (English patient), Caesar (three colors: blue), in Berlin (An English patient), In Venice (Three colors: blue), European Film Awards (Chocolate) … and clearly in the skin (a woman’s interpretation prize in 2010 for a copy).

The French actress takes a new role for the next twelve days, which fits her as a glove: the president of the 78th Cannes Festival. Surrounded by Hali Berry, Payal Kapadia, Alba Rohrwacher, Leymna Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sang-So, Carlos Reygadas and Jeremy Strong, Juliette Binoche talked about the opening ceremony. And in the skin.

“Art remains”: Juliet Binoche’s speech

The actor was born in this same room. From the bottom of my heart, thank you and thank the festival. Thank you for this invitation, which I will share with the jury members. A jury that unites Congo, Italy, Mexico, India, Korea, the United States, Morocco and France.

Artists have the opportunity to testify to others. The more the level of suffering increases and the more important their participation is. War, trouble, climate change, primary mistakes, demons of our barbarians will not leave us.

The wind is very violent today from madness and gets the weakest. October 7 hostages and all the hostages, prisoners, drowned, who can withstand terror and die with a terrible feeling of abandonment and indifference.

Against the impression of this storm, we must have sweetness. Transform our fragmentary visions with confidence. Healing. Heal our ignorance and let our fears, our selfishness. Change. Change the course and before pride, restore humility. All, you have to return it to its place.

In all regions of the world, artists are struggling every day and turning this resistance into art. On April 16, at dawn, in Gaza, at the age of 25, photojournalist Fatma Hasuna and her ten relatives were killed by a rocket that struck their house. He wrote:

“My death has gone away, The shooting ball has called me And I became an angelHuge, larger city’s eyes My dreams, bigger than this city. JHe became a sacred poet in the eyes of the forest, Have a hermit And to receive cypress for offering ”.

The day before his death, he learned that the film in which he appeared was chosen here at the Cannes Film Festival. Fat had to be with us this evening.

Art remains. This is a strong display of our lives, our dreams. We, the viewers, kiss him. That the Cannes Film Festival, where everything is changed, helps it.