Swedish Reuben Ostlundwinner of the last Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival With a critique of capitalist culture, he will be the president of the jury of this year’s edition, which will be held from 16 to 27 May.
Östlund, which with The triangle of sadness (Triangle of sadness) obtained his second Palme d’Or in the French competition last year, he will be the second Swede to hold the responsibility of presiding over the festival, 50 years after Ingrid Bergman.
In a statement published this Tuesday by the Cannes Film Festival, the 48-year-old director is delighted and proud of his choice for this event, which is, in his view, the place in the world which, like no other, arouses ” what a desire for cinema when raise the curtain for a film in competition”.
“I sincerely believe – he adds – that film culture is going through a crucial period. Cinema is unique. It is shared. Watching together requires more than what is shown and intensifies the experience. This leads us to something very different from that secretion of dopamine from the parade of individual screens”.
Östlund was last year’s big winner thanks to a light and wanton satire on the superficiality of capitalist culture and the devotion to selfies.
Before that, in 2017 he had won his first Palme d’Or also for the satirist the squarein which he attacked the art world.
The Swedish director studied cinema in Gothenburg, and in 2004 his first feature film saw the light of a projector, The Mongoloid guitarwith documentary tones, in which he described the crossed destinies of marginal characters with a humor that would later characterize all of his cinematography.
In 2008, Happy Sweden was selected for the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. Two years after, Accident from a bank it took the Golden Bear for best short film at the Berlinale, with an analysis of reactions to a bank robbery by passers-by.
As president of the Cannes Film Festival jury, Östlund says he will remind his colleagues of “the role of cinema”, because according to him “a good film also connects with collective experience, stimulates reflection and makes you want to discuss. In We kind of go see movies together.”
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Source: Clarin
