A year after causing a sensation at Cannes with his film Mad Max: Fury Road , the Australian director returns as president of the jury
It’s official. The father of the saga Mad Max George Miller chair the jury of the 69th Cannes Film Festival, which runs from 11 to 22 May. Both director, screenwriter and producer, he is the first Australian to chair the festival.
“I would have loved to compete! Come to Cannes and not in competition, it’s a bit like we were aware that there was a party, but it was not invited … “confessed George Miller there yet a year.
In addition to the post-apocalyptic adventure, the director of 70 years has explored a wide range of film genres, the animal tale ( Babe ) to intimate drama ( Lorenzo ) through the animated film environmentally oriented ( Happy Feet ).
In 1979 had started the saga of Mad Max , with a young Mel Gibson powered on this occasion on the road to international success. He explained his inspiration for this series that plays on the codes of road movie, westerns and science fiction, from his rural childhood spent in Queensland, where residents are generally very interested in cars .
“That’s when I became an emergency physician and I have seen the carnage caused by car accidents and motorcycle that I began to be inhabited by the subject” Had he told Australia Screen Online in 2006, the site of Australia’s audiovisual archives. “It was rather disturbed me. And I believe that all this is part of the Mad Max. Especially the first one. “
George Miller abandoned his medical career to devote himself to cinema, with films to his credit as The Witches of Eastwick (1987) where one finds stars like Jack Nicholson, Cher and Susan Sarandon
The final component of Mad Max. Fury Road , with Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy in the lead roles, has was presented last year out of competition at Cannes. The film, which is to return to a “more authentic black and white” version, earned ten Oscar nominations, including in the “best film” category and “Best Director”.
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