{"id":36364,"date":"2023-12-17T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/barbie-director-greta-gerwig-to-head-77th-cannes-film-fest-jury-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-12-17T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T00:00:08","slug":"barbie-director-greta-gerwig-to-head-77th-cannes-film-fest-jury-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/barbie-director-greta-gerwig-to-head-77th-cannes-film-fest-jury-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Barbie\u2019 director Greta Gerwig to head 77th Cannes Film Fest jury | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Cannes Film Festival announced Thursday that Greta Gerwig, director of summer blockbuster Barbie<\/em>, will preside over the jury at its 77th edition in May.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old Gerwig, also an actor and screenwriter, takes the baton from Sweden\u2019s Ruben Ostlund, whose jury awarded the 2023 Palme d\u2019Or to courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall.<\/em>\u00a0She is the first American woman filmmaker to take on the role, the festival said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Gerwig\u2019s presence will provide a youthful flair to Cannes, which has not had such a young president since 1966 when it was led by then-31-year-old Sophia Loren. She is also the first woman since actor Cate Blanchett in 2018 to assume the prestigious position, where men remain over-represented.<\/p>\n

Aside from Barbie<\/em>, a vivid feminist satire about the all-conquering line of plastic dolls, Gerwig has also directed Lady Bird<\/em>\u00a0(2017) and Dr March\u2019s Daughters\u2019<\/em>(2020). She is working on an adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia<\/em>\u00a0for Netflix and has also starred in more than two dozen films.<\/p>\n

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