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Competition, lifeblood of Cannes jury, leaves Allen cold

Published 2016-05-11, 12:54 p/m
Competition, lifeblood of Cannes jury, leaves Allen cold

By Julien Pretot
CANNES, France, May 11 (Reuters) - The business of picking
winners may be the Cannes Film Festival jury's raison d'etre,
but it leaves Woody Allen so cold that he has always refused to
be up for a prize at the annual extravaganza.
The veteran American actor and director opens the show for
the third time on Wednesday with 'Cafe Society', but once again
his film will not be in the main competition, whose judges are
this year led by Australian director George Miller.
"For any group to come together and judge the work of other
people is something I would never do," Allen told a news
conference on Wednesday.
"It...is something I do not believe in. So I do not want to
participate in it."
Miller and his team -- which includes American actress
Kirsten Dunst, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, French
singer/actress Vanessa Paradis and last year's Palme d'Or winner
Laszlo Nemes of Hungary -- will however judge 21 films.
"You could argue how do you measure these films, but that's
definitely balanced by the simple joy of being here watching
films that are new, watching them with consideration and then
having a conversation," Miller said.
"We're all very humble with the task. The biggest obstacle
is we are bringing different qualities, we have a different
approach - some film makers, directors, actors, so the task is
to try to forget that and become an audience again," said
Mikkelsen.
For Dunst, the competition is simply vital for cinema in
general.
"Without film festivals like this we wouldn't see movies,
and they would not become famous like (Nemes's) 'Son of Saul',"
she said.
"We need these festivals to promote film makers... Without
that we would just be in big blockbusters all the time."

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