Triangle of Unhappiness director Ruben Östlund will head up this yr’s competitors jury for the Cannes Worldwide Movie Pageant, organizers introduced on Tuesday.
The Swedish director is at the moment driving excessive. Triangle of Unhappiness, a capitalism satire starring Woody Harrelson, Harris Dickinson, Dolly De Leon and the late Charlbi Dean, received Cannes’ Palme d’Or for finest movie final yr, the director’s second, after his 2017 win for the artwork world satire The Sq..
Buoyed by its Palme d’Or win, Triangle of Unhappiness has change into Östlund’s most commercially profitable movie, with a field workplace of $24 million and counting. After sweeping the European Movie Awards, successful finest movie, finest director and finest screenwriter honors for Östlund, in addition to the perfect actor honor for co-star Zlatko Buric, Triangle of Unhappiness picked up three Oscar nominations, for Finest Movie, Finest Director, and Finest Unique Screenplay.
Cannes has at all times been a particular place for Östlund. His second and third options, Involuntary (2008), and Play (2011), screened within the competition’s Un Sure Regard and Administrators’ Fortnight sidebars, respectively. Östlund’s breakout movie, the 2014 dramedy Power Majeure, additionally premiered on the Côte d’Azur, successful the Un Sure Regard jury prize.
“I’m completely happy, proud, and humbled to be trusted with the glory of Jury president for this yr’s Competitors on the Pageant de Cannes,” Östlund stated in a press release. “Nowhere within the movie world is the anticipation as sturdy as when the curtain rises on the movies in competitors on the competition. It’s a privilege to be a part of it, along with the Cannes viewers of connoisseurs. I’m honest after I say that cinema tradition is in its most necessary interval ever. The cinema has a singular side: There, we watch collectively, and it calls for extra on what’s proven and will increase the depth of the expertise. It makes us replicate otherwise than once we dopamine scroll in entrance of the person screens.”
Cannes stated that by naming Östlund jury president, it was paying tribute “to movies which are uncompromising and forthright and which continuously demand that viewers problem themselves and that artwork proceed to invent itself.”
Östlund is the primary Swedish Cannes jury president since Ingrid Bergman in 1973. Östlund can also be the third two-time Palme d’Or winner to move up the jury, following Francis Ford Coppola and Emir Kusturica.
“As president, I’ll remind my colleagues within the jury in regards to the social operate of the cinema,” stated Östlund. “A superb film pertains to the collective expertise, stimulates us to suppose and makes us need to focus on what we have now seen – So let’s watch collectively!”
Cannes will announce this yr’s competitors line up in mid-April. The 76th Cannes Worldwide Movie Pageant runs Might 16-27, 2023.
