Jeremy Robust didn’t maintain again whereas sharing his ideas on serving as a member of the 2025 Cannes Movie Pageant competitors jury.
“I really feel immeasurably impressed by what I’ve seen right here,” Robust, 46, mentioned throughout a Saturday, Might 24, press convention, per Variety. “It’s been so invigorating, and this kind of cumulative tally of the work I’ll carry with me.”
Robust, who served beneath president Juliette Binoche, made the remark after Jafar Panahi’s It Was Simply an Accident was awarded with the coveted Palme d’Or. (Actors Halle Berry and Alba Rohrwacher; administrators Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sang-soo, Payal Kapadia and Carlos Reygadas and author Leïla Slimani have been additionally members of the jury.)
“This has been a extremely fantastic expertise, a extremely related expertise with these folks — it’s like Conclave with champagne,” Robust continued. “It’s actually nice.”
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Robust’s comment references the 2024 movie, which was primarily based on Robert Harris’ novel of the identical title and took house an Oscar for Greatest Tailored Screenplay. (Conclave follows a papal election course of after the sudden dying of a pope, starring the likes of Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow.)
Within the Sunday press convention, Binoche detailed the reasoning behind awarding the highest prize to It Was Simply an Accident. The movie facilities round a bunch of former prisoners in Iran who debate whether or not to kill or forgive a person believed to be their torturous guard. (It Was Simply an Accident marked Panahi’s first film since being launched from jail in 2023.)
“It’s very human and political on the identical time as a result of he comes from a sophisticated nation, politically talking,” Binoche mentioned. “Once we watched the movie, it actually stood out. The movie springs from a sense of resistance, survival, which is totally vital right this moment. So we thought it was vital to offer this movie the paramount award. Artwork will all the time win. What’s human will all the time win. Our inventive urge can rework the world.”
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Robust, for his half, famous that the jury “wished to acknowledge movies that we felt have been transcendent intrinsically as items of labor.” The Succession star went on to cite playwright Henrik Ibsen.
“Ibsen talked about, ‘Deep inside, there’s a poem in a poem. And once you hear that, once you grasp that, you’ll perceive my tune,’” Robust mentioned. “And I really feel that this movie and the opposite movies have these poems inside the poem that permit us to understand one thing ineffable which have modified me.”