Demi will serve (and serve) in Cannes

The Cannes Film Festival totally snuck up on me. Didn’t even realise it starts tomorrow until I saw these shots of Demi Moore arriving. How is it already Cannes? How is the Met Gala already over? My brain and my body are still back at the week after the Oscars when I thought we could chill for five minutes.

But there is no chilling, the pace of pop culture is getting more and more exhausting … so here we are, the eve before another Cannes, where this year, there might be more Hollywood star power on the jury than represented in the film selection because the lineup is light on big American studio presence.

Demi will serve on the jury alongside jury president Park Chan-wook, Chloe Zhao, Stellan Skarsgård, Ruth Negga, Laura Wandel, Diego Céspedes, Paul Laverty, and Isaach De Bankolé. While there may not be many celebrities that people in the west care about at the festival, however, it doesn’t mean the quality in film won’t be there. The film I’m most excited about is Kore-eda’s Sheep in the Box. That’s two films with “sheep” in the title this year, one more and we have a trend, and it would be just in time ahead of next year, when it will be the Year of the Sheep (or Goat/Ram, not interchangeable by genus but it works for Chinese astrology). Kore-ada is a returning Palme d’Or recipient, for Shoplifters back in 2018. He wrote and directed Sheep in the Box, about a couple coping with the loss of their song who adopt a humanoid child in his likeness. I already cried watching the trailer.

Back to Demi though – and what she’ll be serving: film experience, obviously, but also fashion. Cannes is where the Oscar buzz started for her with The Substance (I’m still choked she didn’t win). So I have no doubt Brad Goreski has been at it for weeks planning her jury wardrobe. Between her and Ruth Negga, they’ll give us our style fix from the Croisette, guaranteed.