(Cannes) The Netflix adventure is over for the Italian Paolo Sorrentino who no longer wishes to collaborate with the platform of streaming and defended cinema in Cannes on Tuesday in Cannes during a debate organized for the 75th anniversary of the Festival.
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A Netflix film, “I think it’s not something I will do again”, said the Oscar-winning director of The Great BellezaTuesday, alongside other big names from the 7and art (Guillermo del Toro, Costa-Gavras, Cristian Mungiu…), who came to discuss “the future of cinema”.
His film God’s hand, which competed at the Venice Film Festival in September 2021 and revisits a personal drama – the accidental death of his parents, victims of carbon monoxide poisoning – was broadcast online on Netflix. It was not released in theaters in France.
“I practiced several supports, I made films for the cinema, for television, but in the end, what I prefer is to make films as I did them at the beginning. It is only on a big screen that we find all the power of a story, “said the Neapolitan, also director of the series. The Young Pope with Jude Law.
“Television is not the right place to do big and beautiful things”. He also felt that “people will be tired of seeing films at home and they will return to theaters”.
Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, who collaborates with Netflix on several projects, assured “to be at peace with the format changes”, believing that the important thing was “to tell stories”. “Are we debating the size of the screen or the size of the ideas? “, he quipped.
For the general delegate of the Festival Thierry Frémaux, “the battle that we will all lead is also that films produced by the platforms can go to cinemas”. The rules of the festival exclude from the competition platform films that are not released in French cinemas.
While the great authors no longer hesitate to go on the platforms (Scorsese or Jane Campion at Netflix, soon Ridley Scott at Apple…), and the habits of the spectators evolve, he has several times expressed the wish that this rule change, but the French exhibitors, on the Festival’s board of directors, oppose it.