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Spike Lee to head Cannes Film Festival jury

MM News Staff by MM News Staff
March 17, 2021

PARIS: US director Spike Lee will head the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in July, making him the first black person to take on the role.

The New York filmmaker was supposed to perform the function at last year’s event, but it was cancelled due to the pandemic.

Lee said he was “very humbled” while accepting the invitation in a recorded Twitter message. “Way back in 1986, my very first film ‘Shes Gotta Have It’ played there and it was my introduction to the world of cinema, so Cannes will always have a deep, deep spot in my heart,” he said.

There are doubts over whether this year’s edition will go ahead as planned from July 6 to 17, having already been delayed from its usual slot in May. 

Lee, 63, has been a fixture at Cannes over the years, premiering seven of his films there and winning the second-place Grand Prix in 2018 for “BlacKkKlansman” about a black police officer infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan.

“Throughout the months of uncertainty we’ve just been through, Spike Lee has never stopped encouraging us,” said festival president Pierre Lescure in a statement. “We could not have hoped for a more powerful personality to chart our troubled times.”

He promised to support our return to the Croisette, and he’s kept his word! We are delighted to confirm that American director Spike Lee will preside over the Jury of the 74th Festival de Cannes from 6 to 17 July 2021! #Cannes2021 â–º More info: https://t.co/m0X9Zid7Fo pic.twitter.com/TBvn4zh3XG

— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) March 16, 2021

Lee was seen as a symbolic choice at a time when the French film industry has been mired in controversies over the representation of minorities. The Cannes jury, which selects the winner of the coveted Palme d’Or, has rarely displayed much diversity in the president’s chair.

Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai is the only Asian to have had the honour, while French-Algerian actress Isabelle Adjani was the first of African descent in 1997.

Lee has tried his hand at many genres, but is best known for films that put the African-American experience front and centre. They have ranged from slice-of-life classics such as “Do the Right Thing” to more overtly political works such as “Malcolm X” and his most recent Netflix hit “Da 5 Bloods” about black veterans from the Vietnam war.

“BlacKkKlansman” served as a powerful anti-Trump statement and won him his first Oscar, not counting an honorary award he received in 2015.

Lee exploded on to the film scene at Cannes in 1986 with “She’s Gotta Have It”, which took home the Youth Award. Shot on a shoestring in New York, the story of a young New Yorker trying to choose between three men has become a cult classic and was recently remade as a Netflix series.

When he returned to the Cote d’Azur three years later, he was in the main competition with “Do The Right Thing”, his landmark film about one sweltering day of charged race relations in Brooklyn. “Jungle Fever” (1991), “Girl 6” (1996), “Summer of Sam” (1999), “Ten Minutes Older” (2002) have also featured at the festival.

“I have a special place in my heart for Paris, for France and for the Cannes Film Festival… Book my flight!” he said in the Twitter message.

The official selection for this year’s festival, along with the rest of the jury are due to be named in early June. The last Palme d’Or winner was South Korea’s Bong Joon-ho for “Parasite” in 2019.

He said “Yes”.
AGAIN!
Conversation with Spike Lee, President of the Jury of the Festival de Cannes from 6 to 17 July 2021! #Cannes2021 pic.twitter.com/G1ZFX3pJ9V

— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) March 16, 2021

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