Legendary French star Juliette Binoche to chair Cannes Film Fest jury

The #MeToo Movement got organisations and celebratory events to take note of how poorly women were being represented in them.

- GAUTAMAN BHASKARAN

The Cannes Film Festival-considered the star among all such events the world over (although I have begun to feel that Venice, which takes place in late August on the picturesque island of Lido off mainland Venice, is proving to be a tough competitor) - took this movement seriously.

This year, for the second time in succession, a woman, brilliant French actress Juliette Binoche, would head the prestigious main competition jury. She will succeed American director Greta Gerwig, who chaired the jury last year.

A Festival press note points out, and rightly so, "The burst of all-pervading laughter, an ideal of commitment to her art and her times Binoche has won over audiences and critics alike, bringing together today's greatest moviemakers in her world-class filmography.

Exactly 40 years after her first appearance on La Croisette (Cannes' beachfront where the Festival takes place), she will preside over the Jury of the 78th Festival de Cannes, which will award the Palme d'Or on 24 May, Saturday."