Favorite: Culture and war
At a press conference on Thursday, Russian filmmaker (of Ukrainian mother) Kirill Serebrennikov, a dissident from Putin’s regime now established in Berlin, shared his thoughts on the international boycott of Russian artists who have not denied their homeland. He experienced the effects of censorship in Moscow and believes that art must circulate freely: “I understand those who demand this boycott, but I tell them that it is impossible and unbearable. Culture is water, air, images, all those things beyond our control. Culture and war are antagonistic. »
Rant: The state of French cinema
In the middle of the Cannes Film Festival, data from GroupM, hot releases, distress us. In film-loving France, to attract the public to a national film, a trend is growing: the name of a French filmmaker is no longer enough to seduce the crowds. Less still those of the actors or actresses. The trailer decides the fate of a film in the first place and it needs to be good. As for the international stars, especially Americans, it is less true and their magnet has not lost its magnetism. Only Hollywood still makes people dream. We see it every day on La Croisette.
Odile Tremblay is the guest of the Cannes Film Festival.
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