PARIS - After a trip to the Croisette last year with We Have a Pope, new Festival de Cannes jury president Nanni Moretti now has his jury. Or at least some of it.
This year's jury will be tres chic with fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier being joined by model-turned-actress Diane Kruger and international heartthrob Ewan McGregor.
Festival boss Thierry Fremaux made an appearance on Canal Plus’ morning show La Matinale on Wednesday where he said that Gaultier, Kruger, McGregor, as well as Alexander Payne and Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck would be part of this year’s feature films jury.
Gaultier's participation will mark the first time in festival history that a fashion designer serves on the jury, though he is no stranger to the big screen, having designed the costumes for Luc Besson's The Fifth Element. Kruger will also add her signature touch of glam to the fest, familiar territory for the actress who starred in Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds in 2009 and served as Mistress of Ceremonies in Cannes in 2007.
Fremaux denied rumors that Ryan Gosling would go to Cannes as a member of the jury.
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Descendants director Payne will head from Hawaii to the Cote d'Azur to join the Italian director at the 65th annual Festival de Cannes.
Belgian director Jean-Pierre Dardenne will preside over the Cinefondation and short films jury, and British actor Tim Roth will reign over the Un Certain Regard jury.
“Jean Paul Gaultier is a designer who has worked a lot in film and has already been, in one way or another, in competition. It’s important because these people will be judging the creme de la creme of world cinema so they need to have a certain legitimacy,” Fremaux said. He also called him “a joyous, curious, generous, enthusiastic man who is also a cinephile.”
