HE’s own Guillermo del Toro has been announced as one of the jury members for the 68th Cannes Film Festival. Led, guided, goaded or in some way orchestrated by Joel & Ethan Coen, the other jurors are actresses Rossy de Palma, Sophie Marceau and Sienna Miller, singer-songwriter-guitarist Rokia Traore (who?), director-actor Xavier Dolan and actor Jake Gyllenhaal. Last year’s foo-foo-minded jury (Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Nicolas Winding Refn, Leila Hatami, Gael Garcia Bernal, Carole Bouquet, Jeon Do-yeon) decided on a worthy but somewhat contentious Palme d’Or winner in Nuri Bilge Ceylan‘s Winter Sleep. I’m somehow sensing that whatever the ’15 jury decides upon, there will be less of a “what the eff?” reaction? These guys seem a bit less eccentric, more “open to the currents,” etc.
