娱乐英语新闻:Venice film festival president highlights Chinese jury

VENICE, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Jiang Wen is an "important Chinese actor, director and screenplay writer," said 70th Venice film Festival president AlBerto Barbera.

Jiang Wen will present the first movie he directed in the Venice Classics section, his movie In the Heat of the Sun which has been recently restored took part to the main competition in Venice and won the Volpi Cup for the best actor.

Barbera said at the press conference," the Chinese cinema with its interesting masterpieces had in the recent years the most important growth ever, even bigger than the one in the U.S.. For this reason I wanted to have a prominent Chinese author.

During the opening press conference of the 70th edition of the Venice film Festival, Barbera introduced the three juries of the contests in the festival starting from the main competition Venezia 70, which is chaired by the Italian movie director Bernardo Bertolucci.

Mr. Barbera said that there would be "a lot of surprises during this festival and some of them also are going to be hilarious".

About the main selection, Mr. Barbera explained than It was very difficult to have Mr. Bertolucci in the jury.

"He accepted only in a second stage after I wrote him a letter," he said.

Talking about expectations from this experience in the jury, Mr. Bertolucci pointed out that" This is a very tiring job but I will be very happy to be surprised and to be amazed by something unexpected.