Tarantino to be Cannes film jury president
Quentin Tarantino will preside over the jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the organisers said today.
The United States film maker’s celebrated crime romp Pulp Fiction won the festival’s top honour – the Palme d’Or – in 1994.
His earlier cult classic Reservoir Dogs was nominated for the festival’s top prize in 1992.
“For a film maker and film lover, there’s no greater honour than to be on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival,” Tarantino said in a statement issued by the festival’s organisers.
To be president of the jury, the 40-year-old Tarantino said, was “the crowning achievement of a lifetime spent in cinematic obsession – a magnificent obsession”.
Tarantino’s latest film, Kill Bill – Vol. 1, an ultra-violent vengeance flick, was released in the United States in October after a six-year hiatus for the director.
The next chapter, Kill Bill – Vol. 2, was due for release later this month, completing a saga that began on the Pulp Fiction shoot 10 years ago.
Tarantino succeeds last year’s jury president Patrice Cheraud for the festival which runs from May 12 to 23.
