Paris, April 14 (EFE) .- The latest film by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, “Juliet”, will compete for the Palme d’Or in the official section of Cannes Film Festival, which opens on May 11, announced today the organizers of the event.
“I am very pleased to have been selected to compete at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. judging from the titles and authors that accompany going to be a great edition” said the director after announcing their participation in the event.
Now Almodóvar returns to Cannes five years after filing, also in competition, “the skin I Live”.
is the fifth feature that the Spanish filmmaker presented in competition at the French festival, which debuted at Cannes in 1999 with “All about my mother” (1999), which won the award for Best director.
in 2006 participated with “Volver”, the awards for Best Screenplay and Best Actress, ex-aequo for the entire female cast of the film Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Blanca Portillo, Lola Duenas, Yohana Cobo and Chus took Lampreave- .
Later, Almodóvar competed for the Palme d’Or with “broken embraces” (2009) and “the skin I Live in” (2011), films that were empty of Cannes.
in addition, out of competition, his film “bad education” was responsible for opening the festival in 2004. and in 1992 was a member of the official competition jury, chaired by French actor Gerard Depardieu, and that gave the Palme d’Or for “the best intentions” by Billie August.
“Juliet” released in Spain last week, is a film inspired by three stories of Canadian nobel prize Alice Munro and tells the story of Juliet, his complex relationship with his daughter, in an analysis of fatality and guilt complex.
Starring Emma Suarez and Adriana Ugarte, who play Juliet in two periods of his life also has in its cast with Argentine Dario Grandinetti and Rossy de Palma, Inma Cuesta, Daniel Grao or Michelle Jenner. EFE
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