President Wong Kar Wai
According to a BBC article, Wong Kar Wai has been chosen as the president of the jury for this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
He apparently released a statement which contained an amusingly Wong Kar Wai-ish quote: “Every town has its own language. In Cannes, it’s the language of dream.” Mm-hmm…
Anyhow, I had to steal their AFP-credited picture and place it here, because…well…is it just me, or is sunglasses and cigarette part of the required Hong Kong director uniform?
Seriously, very glad to see him get some well-deserved attention. I admire him for his talent, but I also admire him because he doesn’t really play by the rules, and he is mostly self-taught. People who don’t travel with the herd, and succeed in spite of it are deserved of acclaim.