Kusturica to head Cannes jury
Yugoslav director Emir Kusturica, twice winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s best picture award, has been chosen to head the jury for the 2005 festival in May.
The Sarajevo-born director of “The Time of the Gypsies” won the coveted Palme d’Or for best film at Cannes for “When Father Was Away on Business” in 1985. He scooped it again a decade later with “Underground.”
“Now it is my turn to defend the festival’s values: I have given myself the mission, as president of the jury, to put aesthetics and art at the heart of the show,” Kusturica said.
At 2004’s festival, Kusturica said he was waging a battle to save cinema from the influence of Hollywood, which he says reveres money above art.
The world’s most famous film festival will take place in the French Riviera resort city in southern France from May 11 to 22.
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