Svolta “gotica” per il Festival di Cannes, che per l’edizione 2010 ha incoronato presidente della giuria il regista americano Tim Burton. Ancora segreti i nomi degli otto giurati, che saranno svelati in aprile. In tempo per la kermesse del cinema che quest’anno si terrà dal 12 al 23 maggio.
Tim Burton ha accettato l’incarico dichiarando di vivere “un dream come true. " For the talented director of 'The Chocolate Factory', 'Edward Scissorhands', 'Corpse Bride' and other titles have become classics of contemporary cinema, to preside over the jury of the Festival is a great honor. Having spent my youth watching the three programs together and do marathons in 48 hours of horror films, I feel ready for Cannes. "
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Who wonders why the choice fell on ' prodigy movie gothic, management responds, calling it "a filmmaker with a heart of gold and silver hands." It will be a president "both surprising and obvious" and thanks "to his gentle humor to his madness and gothic the Croisette will be like Christmas Day. But perhaps I should say Halloween, "jokes the president Gilles Jacob of the festival in Cannes trying to figure burtoniana version.
Certainly there will be pumpkins, skeletons, cats and blacks. But they are all willing to bet that the atmosphere will be less classical than last year, when presiding over the jury had been called the French actress Isabelle Huppert.