curly selection jury announced: “engine” for the 69th Cannes Film Festival – Le Parisien

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professional jury also because all its members belong to the world of the 7th art: five actresses and actors, the American Kirsten Dunst, the French Vanessa Paradis, Donald Sutherland Canadian, Italian and Valeria Golino Dane Mads Mikkelsen alongside two directors Arnaud Desplechin the French and Hungarian Laszlo Nemes and Iranian producer Katayoon Shahabi.
Many are familiar festival. Arnaud Desplechin, director of Lover’s Discourse, was present on the Croisette with his first feature film “The Sentinel” in 1992. However, he had not been selected in the official competition last year for “Three memories of my youth “which earned him the César Award for best director this year.
Laszlo Nemes made a remarkable debut in 2015 with” the son of Saul “which won the Grand Prix before then grab the Oscar for best foreign film in 2016.
Kirsten Dunst won the Best Actress award in 2011 for “Melancholia” by Lars von Trier and Mads Mikkelsen the Best Actor in 2012 for “the Hunt”.
Veteran of Hollywood, Donald Sutherland has embodied a memorable Casanova Federico Fellini and played a leading role in the cult film “MASH” by Robert Altman, golden Palm in 1970.
Well known in Italy, Valeria Golino also often played in Hollywood, including “Rain Man” Barry Levinson (1988) and toured with many Italian directors including “Respiro”, before moving behind the camera in 2013
-The movies 30 countries on the Croisette –

from a young age, Vanessa Paradis has spearheaded a singing career and actress, including “Heartbreaker” and “Apprentice gigolo”.
The competition for the Palme d’Or also several regulars from the Croisette as Spain’s Pedro Almodovar, American Jim Jarmusch, the Dardenne brothers (Belgium) or the French Olivier Assayas, who will present “Personal Shopper” , ghost story in the world of fashion with Kristen Stewart.
Other French in the running, Alain Guiraudie ( “Stranger by the Lake”) for “Stay Vertical”, Nicole Garcia for “Evil stone” with Marion Cotillard, and Bruno Dumont for “My Loute” burlesque thriller . Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
addition to Jim Jarmusch, who will return for “Paterson” with Adam Driver, two other Americans in the race: Sean Penn, with “the Last Face” romance background humanitarian Action with Charlize Theron, Javier Bardem and Adèle Exarchopoulos and Jeff Nichols with “Loving”, a mixed couple confronted with racism in Virginia in the 50
Dardenne brothers, two time golden Palm ( “Rosetta”, “The Child”) will be looking for their hat-trick with “The unknown Girl” with Adèle Haenel.
Also on the track, the Dutch director of “Basic Instinct” Paul Verhoeven for “Elle”, the Dane Nicolas Winding Refn for “The Neon Demon” with Elle Fanning, Romanians Cristian Mungiu for “Bachelor” and Cristi Puiu for “Sieranevada”, the British Ken Loach, 79, for “I, Daniel Blake” and Andrea Arnold for “American Honey”.
total of 52 films from 30 countries were selected on the proposed 1,869.
As for actors, Cannes 2016 will be focussing on the American or French stars. Kristen Stewart, Russell Crowe, Adam Driver, Shia LaBeouf, Ryan Gosling, Charlize Theron, Marion Cotillard, Vincent Cassel, Lea Seydoux, Adèle Haenel, Juliette Binoche and Isabelle Huppert will walk the red carpet.