Cannes 2021: Parasite Star Song Kang-ho & Maggie Gyllenhaal To Be Part Of Jury
Parasite star Song Kang-ho and Hollywood actor Maggie Gyllenhaal are among the eight prominent artistes to join filmmaker Spike Lee in the jury for the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
Parasite
star
Song
Kang-ho
and
Hollywood
actor
Maggie
Gyllenhaal
are
among
the
eight
prominent
artistes
to
join
filmmaker
Spike
Lee
in
the
jury
for
the
2021
Cannes
Film
Festival.
Director
Mati
Diop,
singer-songwriter
Mylene
Farmer,
writer-director
Jessica
Hausner,
French
star
Melanie
Laurent,
writer-director
Kleber
Mendonca
Filho
and
actor
Tahar
Rahim
are
also
part
of
the
jury,
the
festival
organisers
said
in
a
statement.
The
competition
line-up
boasts
of
movies
from
auteur
filmmakers
like
Wes
Anderson,
Leos
Carax,
Mia
Hansen-Love,
Julia
Ducournau,
Paul
Verhoeven,
and
more.
The
2021
jury
will
unveil
its
list
of
winners
on
July
17
during
the
Cannes
closing
ceremony.
Almost
all
the
jury
members
have
taken
part
in
previous
edition
of
the
Festival.
Song's
2019
multiple
Oscar-winning
film
Parasite,
directed
by
his
frequent
collaborator
Bong
Joon-ho,
had
its
premiere
at
the
2019
edition
of
the
film
gala
where
it
became
the
first
South
Korean
film
to
win
the
coveted
Palme
d'Or
trophy.
At
the
same
edition,
Diop
had
won
the
Grand
Prix
for
her
film
Atlantics,
while
Hausner
had
competed
with
Little
Joe,
which
won
lead
star
Emily
Beecham
the
Best
Actress
prize.
Tahar
Rahim,
the
French
actor
of
Algerian
descent,
found
fame
with
his
breakout
in
Jacques
Audiard’s
A
Prophet,
which
bagged
the
Grand
Prize
of
the
jury
in
2009.
Melanie
Laurent
starred
in
Quentin
Tarantino’s
Palme
d’Or
contender
Inglourious
Basterds,
while
Filho
recently
won
the
Jury
Prize
with
Bacurau.