Cannes2018: Benicio del Toro, President of the Jury Un Certain Regard
He is a great actor who will preside over the Jury Un Certain Regard. This native of Puerto Rico, with his 90 meter, Benicio Del Toro has long dreamed of a basketball player, he will be a movie actor.
Benicio Del Toro succeeds Uma Thurman, President in 2017.
Benicio del Toro, President of the Jury Un Certain Regard
A Certain Look:
Räns (Border), of Ali Abbasi
Sofia, of Meyem Benm-Barek
The Kittens, andrea Bescond & Eric Métaye
Girl, of Lukas Dhont
Maniac, of Vanessa Filho
Long Day Bi Gan
Euphoria, de Valeria Golino
Rafiki, by Wanuri Kahiu
Die Stropers (The Harverest) by Etienne Kallos
My favorite fabric, of Gaya Jiji
Get down on your knees, guys. (Sextape), by Antoine Desrosières
El Angel, by Luis Ortega
The Gentle Indifference of The World, of Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Manto, by Nandita Das
In My Room, d-Ulrich Köhler
The second competition of the Official Selection, Un Certain Regard will offer this year another twenty singular and original works in their purpose and aesthetics.
It was in 2008, in Cannes, that he knew the consecration with a price for the interpretation of Che Guevara In Steven Soderbergh's diptych, a role he played for 7 years. The story he shares with the Festival is long since the actor presented Usual Suspects in Special Session, then The Pledge (2001), Sin City (2005) and recently Sicario (2015) in Competition. He even accompanied his first production, El Yuma, one of the 7 Days segments in Havana, a collective work selected at Certain Regard in 2012. The following year Benicio Del Toro declared: « I've come many times before and it's always a great chance. I always feel moved, excited. »
Benicio del Toro a l ́ecran
On the screen, he offers a thousand faces: gangster manipulated (Usual Suspects, 1995), moustachu eccentric lawyer (Las Vegas Parano, 1998), four-finger robber (Snatch, 2000), Mexican narcotics agent maltreated in cartels' meanderings (Traffic, 2001, Oscar of the best second role), former bulldozer become Christian fundamentalist (21 Grammes, 2003), Indian of the tormented plains (Jimmy P., 2013), famous narcotrafiquant as charming as terrifying (Paradise Lost, 2014).
The complete selection:
Competition:
Everybody Knows, asghar Farhadi (opening)
At war, by Stéphane Brisée
Dogman, by Matteo Garrone
The Image Book, by Jean-Luc Godard
Netemo Sametemo (Asako I & II) of Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Love and run fast, by Christophe Honoré
The Daughters of the Sun (Girls of the Sun), of Eva Husson
Ash Is Purest White, Jia Zhang-Ke
Shoplifters, of Kore-Eda Hirokazu
Capernaum (Capernaum), Nadine Labaki
Buh-Ning (Burning), Lee Ch
Out of competition:
Solo: Star Wars Story, by Ron Howard
The Great Bath, by Gilles Lellouche
Special meetings:
10 years in Thailand, by Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnon Srihol & Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The State Against Mandela and the Others, by Nicolas Champeaux and Gilles Porte
Crossing, by Romain Goupil (and Daniel Cohn-Bendit)
Dead Souls, (Dead Souls) by Wang Bing
Pope Francis – A man of word, by Wim Wenders
Midnight sessions:
Arctic, by Joe Penna
Gongjack (The Spy Gone North) of Yoon Jong-Bin
The Cannes International Film Festival will take place from Tuesday 8 to Saturday 19 May.
