The film “Hands of Stone”, inspired by the life of the legendary Panamanian boxer Roberto “Mano de Piedra” Durán, starring Edgar Ramírez and Robert de Niro, will be screened at the next edition of the Cannes Film Festival in a special session, announced today the organizers.
De Niro, who gets into the coach’s shoes, will go to the Palace of Festivals, where on May 16 that film by Venezuelan director Jonathan Jakubowicz will be screened, who will also travel to the Côte d’Azur on the occasion of the premiere.
The evening, which will serve as a tribute to the American actor, will also be attended by the Venezuelan Ramírez, interpreter of the boxer, and the Cuban actress Ana de Armas, who completes the cast in the role of his wife, Felicidad Iglesias.
“I am very happy with the idea of returning to Cannes, especially with ‘Hands of Stone’, a formidable film of which I am very proud,” said De Niro, “impatient” also to see “friends from all over the world. world”.
Jakubowicz narrates in his new film the life of the also known as “El Cholo”, a Panamanian boxer who debuted in the ring in 1968 to become the best lightweight of all time, and explores with particular attention the relationship that the champion maintained with his coach, Ray Arcel.
«You are going to see De Niro in his purest form. Everyone knows his passion for boxing and he has contributed a lot to ‘Hands of Stone’, “says producer Harvey Weinstein in a statement released by the festival.
The actor is one of the festival’s regular figures, whose main jury he presided over in 2011, after having been part of the cast of two of its Palmas de Oro, “Taxi Driver”, by Martin Scorsese, in 1976, and “The Mission” ( «The mission), by Roland Joffé, in 1986.
After Cannes, the film will open simultaneously in Panama and the US on August 26. EFE
Cannes will screen a film about “Mano de Piedra” Durán in a special session
