Updated On: 15 May, 2024 06:27 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Italian judge Pierfrancesco Favino added, "Filmmakers play the important role of reminding the world of where it can find beauty"

(From L) Member of the Jury of the 77th Cannes Film Festival Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, French actress and model Eva Green, Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino, French actress and master of the ceremony of the 77th cannes film festival Camille Cottin, French actress Juliette Binoche, US actress Meryl Streep, US director and president of the Jury of the 77th Cannes Film Festival Greta Gerwig, members of the Jury of the 77th Cannes Film Festival Lebanese director Nadine Labak, US actress Lily Gladstone, Spanish director, producer, and writer Juan Antonio Bayona, French actor and comedian Omar Sy and Turkish actress and screenwriter Ebru Ceylan pose on stage (Photo by Antonin THUILLIER/AFP)
Beneath intermittent rainy skies, the Cannes Film Festival opened on Tuesday with the presentation of an honorary Palme d`Or for Meryl Streep and the unveiling of Greta Gerwig`s jury, as the French Riviera spectacular kicked off a potentially volatile 77th edition.
A 10-day stream of stars began flowing down the Cannes` red carpet with the opening night film: "The Second Act," a French comedy starring Lea Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel and Raphael Quenard. They play squabbling actors filming a movie directed by an artificial intelligence.