Vincent Cassel will be the Master of Ceremonies of the forthcoming Festival de Cannes.
He will launch the 59th edition on May 17, 2006, by welcoming the President of the Jury Wong Kar Wai and his Jury onto the stage of the Palais des Festivals.

He will equally host the Closing Ceremony, on Sunday, May 28th, at which the Awards will be announced.

Vincent Cassel was invited for the very first time to the Festival de Cannes in 1995 for Mathieu Kassovitz's Hate, which launched his career and became a cult movie for an entire generation. Considered as the muse of young French cinema, he notably shoots, along with Christophe Gans, Jan Kounen and Jacques Audiard, Read My Lips (2001), which provides him with one of his greatest roles. Vincent Cassel returns to Cannes in 2002 with Gaspard Noé's Irreversible, which sets off a storm of debate amongst audiences and critics alike. In 2004, his part in Ocean's Twelve marks the beginning of his international career.