Jerome Salle’s film Zulu starring Oscar winner Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom will close the 66th Cannes film festival next month.
Zulu is set in Cape Town against the background of a country still overshadowed by apartheid and where affluent suburbs rub shoulders with dirt poor townships.
It tells story of two police officers played by Bloom and Whitaker caught up in a search described by organisers as combining “elements of political film noir and social study”.
The movie was co-written by Julien Rappeneau with a score by Alexandre Desplat.
Whitaker in 2007 won the best actor Academy Award for his role as former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada in The Last King of Scotland. He also won best actor at Cannes in 1988 for his role in Clint Eastwood’s Bird.
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