The Spanish representation at Cannes Film Festival (Southern France) will include this year the new Almodóvar film "The Skin I Live In" that will play in competition in the Festival's official selection.
The 64th Cannes Festival will be held from 11 May until 22 May with Robert de Niro as the president of the Jury. The other Jury members are Martina Gusman, Nansun Shi, Uma Thurman, Linn Ullmann, Olivier Assayas, Jude Law, Mahamat Saleh Haroun and Johnnie To. The Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica will be the president of the Jury for the -Un Certain Regard- selection, and the French director Michel Gondry will chair the Cinéfondation and short film selections.
Almodóvar will be competing together with filmmakers such as Lars Von Trier with his new work "Melancholia" or the Finnish Aki Kaurismaki with "Le Havre" or the Italian actor/director Nanni Moretti with his "Habemus Papam", among others.
According to the information that is already circulating about the new Almodovar work, "The Skin I Live In" seems to have a dramatically heavy impact. The script is an adaptation of Thierry Jonquet's novel "Tarantula", which tells the story of a plastic surgeon who is seeking a revenge against someone who raped his daughter.
At the same time there seems to be something malicious about the surgeon himself which is played by Antonio Banderas. The rest of the cast consists of Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Blanca Suárez, Eduard Fernández and Bárbara Lennie among others.The films has been picked by Sony Pictures Classics and will be released, after the Cannes Festival, in the month of September in Spain, on October in Germany and on November 2011 in UK and US.
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