2023-12-14 13:46:34
by Stefania Ulivi
A year ends now for the director of Barbie, second in this role after Jane Campion: she takes over from the Swede Ruben Ostlund
Sar Greta Gerwig is the president of the jury of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, scheduled from 14 to 25 May 2024. The first time by an American director, the second by a filmmaker after the pioneer of them all, Jane Campion, crowning a year in who, as the long official press release underlines, broke all records with his film Barbie.
Golden year
Box office champion, almost 1.5 billion dollars worldwide, ready to hit the jackpot in the awards season in view of the Oscar. Director, screenwriter, actress, born in 1983, Californian from Sacramento, heroine of our time, Gerwig takes up the baton from Swedish director Ruben Ostlund, whose jury awarded the Palme d’Or to Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet in the last edition. I deeply love cinema – her comment on the nomination – I like making films, I like going to see films, I like talking about them for hours. As a film enthusiast, Cannes has always been for me the pinnacle of what the universal language of cinema can represent. The festival through Iris Knobloch and Thierry Frmaux, president and general delegate of the Festival, welcomes her with open hands with words of infinite esteem: heroine of our times, she who dreamed of becoming a playwright has created her own path, with coherence and taste for the risk, towards the heights of splendor.
Blockbuster d’autore
And again, yesterday ambassador of American independent cinema, today at the pinnacle of global success at the box office, Greta Gerwig manages to combine what was previously considered incompatible: creating auteur blockbusters, reducing the gap between art and industry, skilfully exploring feminist issues contemporary and declaring its demanding artistic ambition within an economic model that it embraces to make the most of it. Gerwig started out as an actress, then as a screenwriter she co-wrote Hannah Takes the Stairs and Nights and Weekends which she also co-directed, then Frances Ha, Mistress America before Barbie with her husband Noah Baumbach. She made her directorial debut with Lady Bird (2017) followed by Little Women. Beyond the seventh art, she is also the representative of an era that is breaking down barriers and mixing genres, thus raising the values of intelligence and humanism, concludes the statement.
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December 14, 2023 (changed December 14, 2023 | 12:45)
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