Vicky Krieps, Maïmouna Doucouré and More Join President Xavier Dolan on Cannes’ Un Certain Regard Jury
variety.comPat Saperstein Deputy Editor UPDATE: Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan, whose film “Mommy” received the Cannes Jury Prize in 2014, will head the jury of Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival.
Joining him on the jury will be “Cuties” director Maïmouna Doucouré, “The Mother of All Lies” helmer Asmae El Moudir, “Phantom Thread” actor Vicky Krieps and film critic Todd McCarthy. “I am humbled and delighted to return to Cannes as President of the Un Certain Regard Jury,” he said in a statement. “Even more than making films myself, discovering the work of talented filmmakers has always been at the very heart of both my personal and professional journeys.
I see, in this responsibility I’m assigned, the opportunity to focus with the members of the Un Certain Regard Jury on an essential aspect of the art of film : stories told truthfully.” Dolan wrote, directed, produced and starred in his first feature “I Killed My Mother” when he was 19 years old.
His second film “Heartbeats” played in Un Certain Regard when he was 21, followed by “Laurence Anyways” which played in Un Certain Regard two years later, tying for best actress for Suzanne Clement.
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