Robert De Niro Makes It To The Cannes Film Festival
January 7th, 2011 - 7:01 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
which was released in December. The film is currently receiving accolades in France.
The nomination of Robert De Niro as the jury president does not come as surprise to him as he was the founder of the Tribeca Film Festival in the past.The Tribeca Film Festival finally branched out to Doha Festival, about two years back. Robert De Niro also has a long association with the French Festival when he was nominated as the president twice during the eighties. A Robert De Niro starrer film Taxi Driver grabbed the Palme d’Or in 1976. Robert De Niro’s last film that was screened at the festival was What Just Happened in 2008. The film was a satire and the climactic scene was based on the festival itself. The festival of 2008 also came to an end with the screening of What Just Happened.
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