Following the footsteps of Agnès Varda, another French film icon, Jean-Pierre Léaud, will be celebrated with a honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival.
As part of Cannes’ tribute, Cannes will host a special screening of Albert Serra’s “The Death of Louis XIV” in which Léaud starred.
The honorary Palme d’or will be given during the festival’s closing ceremony on May 22.
A symbol of the French New Wave, Léaud, who’s had a long relationship with Cannes, was discovered at 14 by François Truffaut with “The 400 Blows.”