Source: China Daily
Chinese film star Shu Qi will have a say in deciding this year's winner of the world's biggest film festival.
The Taiwan-born actress is part of the eight-member jury panel that was announced on Thursday by the 62nd Cannes International Film Festival.
French actress Isabelle Huppert, a two-time best actress award winner at Cannes, will lead the panel. Other jury members include Italian actress, director and screenwriter Asia Argento; Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a Turkish director, screenwriter and actor; Lee Chang-dong, a director from South Korea; American director James Gray; British writer Hanif Kureishi; and Robin Wright Penn, an American actress.
The jury will decide the winner for the coveted Golden Palm, the top prize of the Cannes festival.
This will not be Shu Qi's first appearance in Cannes. She was there in 2005, when her film "Three Times", directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, was nominated for that year's Golden Palm.
Besides Shu Qi, actress Zhang Ziyi is another Chinese judge at this year's festival. Zhang is among the five-member jury that will select the winner of the award for best short film.
Not sure what bugs me more about this. Is it that an unknown, talentless hoochie is on the jury as an important festival like Cannes? How does Cannes even know her? She's been in nothing important.
Or the fact that she's "China's Shu Qi". China's? She's born in Taiwan and made her name in Hk films. There's nothing "China" about her. Unless she's defected TO China.
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I think they mean Chinese in the sense that she speaks Mandarin, and that she has been in movies shown in both Taiwan and mainland China. What's more, since most Taiwanese are Han, what's the difference, really?
PS: Tracy's just player hating because she's had a piece of Leon Lai!
What you're describing is "chinese Shu Qi" as in a person of chinese heritage.
Not "China's Shu Qi" which is a person that belong to the country of China PR.
Two totally different things :)
I don't player hate! She just sucks :P
Well, to be honest with you, Tracy, I found Shu Qi okay in So Close. True, she doesn't have the dramatic talent of Maggie Cheung or even Zhang Ziyi, but she's okay. All in all, without necessarily being worthless as an actress, Shu Qi just has the bad luck of being underestimated and stuck with an agent who doesn't know how to pick outstanding scripts.
Besides, back in 2000, her former agent could have land her the role of Zhang Ziyi in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but decided to pick another film for her. In the light of all the praises CTHD received, Shu Qi decided to fire her agent and hire a new one.
I'm not a huge fan of Zhang Ziyi but I admit that she made CTHD the hit that it became. Shu Qi would have been terrible in that role. Not really feisty and mean enough.
She fired her agent in 2000 and she still hasn't been in anything good. The main directors in chinese film, Zhang Yimou, Tsiu Hark, Wong Kar Wai, Andrew Lau, Ang Lee, Kaige Chen etc... none of them use her.
I just don't see what Shu Qi has done to be on the jury. For example, (as you mentioned) Maggie Cheung. She has won a Cannes Best Actress award and even she hasn't been invited onto the jury yet.
"She fired her agent in 2000 and she still hasn't been in anything good. The main directors in chinese film, Zhang Yimou, Tsiu Hark, Wong Kar Wai, Andrew Lau, Ang Lee, Kaige Chen etc... none of them use her."
Touché.
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