The French actor and humorist succeed Lambert Wilson for the opening and closing of the Cannes event, to be held from May 11 to 22
Two months before the start of the festivities, the Cannes festival puts the spotlight on its key moments and personalities that will host this year for its 69th edition. It will be launched on 11 May at an opening ceremony which will be presented by Laurent Lafitte.
The actor and comedian 42 years, succeeding Lambert Wilson, who had assured the year last brilliantly presentations. Laurent Lafitte also host the closing ceremony on 22 May at which it will award the prizes awarded by the jury, chaired this year by the Australian director George Miller, this last year at Cannes with Mad Max . Both ceremonies will be broadcast live and unencrypted on Canal +.
Resident of the Comédie-French since 2012, Laurent Lafitte will not perform his first as master of ceremonies. In 2011, it was to him that was had the honor to present the 25th Molière Award.
Laurent Lafitte came to prominence in the 1990s with his character Juan, in the sitcom mannequin Class . A role that allowed him to win many more for the cinema and for television. Then it was the theater the actor has earned a strong reputation. His one-man show, Laurent Lafitte, as its name indicates , launched in 2008, has been played more than a hundred times the Ice Palace in Paris, then was taken over two years later.
Side cinema, the actor has mainly asserted in the records of comedy ( On the Other Side of the Tracks’ , … or 16 almost , mom or Dad , Asterix: The Mansions of the gods ) without forgetting to expand its palette of dramatic films ( Little White Lies , The Beautiful Days , Boomerang ). Recently, he finished shooting the thriller This , under the leadership of Dutchman Paul Verhoeven and starring Isabelle Huppert as a playing partner. He is currently shooting See you up there the next Albert Dupontel.
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