Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticOnly four of the 24 films in competition at the Cannes Film Festival this year were directed by women.
Statistically speaking, the odds that one will join Jane Campion as the lone woman to win a Palme d’Or are slim — and this in a year when Venice winner Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” went on to win three Oscars.What better moment for the festival to honor one of the industry’s most respected female artists with an honorary Palme d’Or: Jodie Foster, viewed back homein the U.S.
as a talented director and star who’s taken the high road her entire career — and by French as that rare American who speaks their language and deserves their respect.Foster was 12 the first time one of her films played Cannes.
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