Robert de Niro will receive a palm of gold of honor at the 2025 Cannes Festival
The festival will start strong this year.
Pending the official selection, which will be unveiled this Thursday, April 10, the 78th Cannes Film Festival draw an ad to start the week well. After Meryl Streep and George Lucas last year (as well as the Ghibli studio), Robert de Niro will receive a palm of honor During the opening ceremony on May 13. The next day, he will give a masterclass on the stage of the Debussy room.
“”I have very strong feelings for the Cannes Film Festival. Especially today, while so much in the world separate us, Cannes brings us together: storytellers, filmmakers, admirers and friends. It’s like we’ll come home“Said legend in the press release by the festival.
Between de Niro and Cannes, it’s a long story. He played in two films awarded with the Palme d’Or: Driver taxi by Martin Scorsese in 1976 and Assignment by Roland Joffé in 1986. He also presented on the Croisette Mean Streets,, 1900,, The puppet waltz, Once upon a time in America Or Killers of the Flower Moon. And he was even president of the Cannes festival jury in 2011, who had seen Tree of life Of Terrence Malick win the Palme d’Or.
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