(AFP / Relaxnews) – The Australian filmmaker George Miller, who will chair the jury of the 69th Cannes Film Festival, is a former famous physician to the saga of the “Mad Max”, who also participated in the renaissance of Australian cinema.
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”).
Both director, screenwriter and producer, George Miller was the first Australian to chair the Cannes Film Festival.
In 1979 had started the saga of Mad Max, a young Mel Gibson powered on this occasion on the road to international success.
explained his inspiration for this series that plays on the codes of road movie, westerns and science fiction, from his rural childhood spent in the state of 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”, he had Australia told 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, to his credit with films like” The Witches of Eastwick “(1987) where we find the stars like Jack Nicholson, Cher and Susan Sarandon.
The latest installment of Mad Max, “Fury Road,” with Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy in the lead roles, was presented last year at the festival out of competition Cannes. He earned ten Oscar nominations, including in the “best film” category and “Best Director”.
“I wanted to see what the audience could absorb in terms of history, of experience, felt during a fast action movie, “he told the Sydney Morning Herald in October 2015.
” I am always interested in the evolution of film language. It is an acquired language, which laid the foundations of grammar to the silent era. + Mad Max + is a silent movie with sound “.
George Miller also collaborated successfully on Australian television, with series like” The Dismissal “,” Bangkok Hilton “and” Bodyline ” .
The father of the director had landed in Australia from Greece. George Miller is married to film editor Margaret Sixel.
For the occasion, the festival has put online a video of the director: https://youtu.be/7fQ57mm9SIc
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