American actress Meryl Streep will receive the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, which begins on the 14th in France, the festival announced this Thursday.
“Thirty-five years after winning the Best Actress award for Cry of Courage (1988). [de Fred Schepisi]In her only appearance to date at Cannes, Meryl Streep will make her long-awaited return to the Croisette,” the festival said in a press release.
74-year-old Meryl Streep, one of the most decorated and versatile actresses of her generation, will receive an honorary award at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival.
“Throughout her career, Meryl Streep has never shied away from publicly condemning the precarious position of women in the film industry,” festival participants said, noting some of the actress’s iconic films, such as Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Afrika Minya (1985) and The Bridges of Madison County (1995).
This year, the Cannes Festival has already announced that it will also present a career award to North American director and producer George Lucas, a “Hollywood legend,” and an honorary award to Japanese animation studio Ghibli, in an unprecedented gesture in history. festival.
The official Cannes competition for Palma d’Ouro includes the short film “Mau por um momento” by Daniel Soares and the feature film “Grand Tour” by Miguel Gomez.
The Cannes Premiere section will feature the film Miséricorde by French director Alain Guiraudie, co-produced by Rosa Filmes in collaboration with France, Spain and Portugal.
Parallel sections of the festival also feature Portuguese cinema, namely “My Feelings Are All I Have to Offer” by Isadora Neves Marques as part of Criticism Week.
The Filmmakers’ Fortnight, another of the parallel programmes, includes the feature film Savana and Montagna by Paulo Carneiro and the short films Quando a terra fugi by Frederico Lobo and O Jardim em Movimento. Ines Lima.
The co-production with Portugal will also feature Argentine director Germán Rosselli’s Algo viejo, algo nuevo, algo presta.
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Source: CM Jornal
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