Thierry Frémaux, basic delegate of Cannes: “Karla Sofía Gascón seems to me an incredible person, an incomparable actress. Artists should not be perfect ”| Culture | EUROtoday

Half of Monday, March 3 in Madrid. Not even 24 hours have handed the tip of the Oscar ceremony and the Frenchman Thierry Frémaux (Tullins-Fure, 64 years previous) eats calm within the Spanish capital after flying from Paris that morning: he noticed the gala of the triumph of Anora, He slept a bit and to the aircraft. There are simply over two months left to begin the 78th version of the Cannes Festival, of which Frémaux is the overall delegate (as a CEO), and the movie supervisor clarifies: “I cannot talk about the next edition.” But of the 2024, which marked the previous Oscar: of the 20 statuettes of the Hollywood awards granted to function movies, 9 had been taken by movies launched within the Croisette, the seashore of the French metropolis.

And in fact, he additionally desires to speak concerning the Lumière brothers: Frémaux directs in Lyon the Lumière Institute, and this Friday premieres in Spain Light, the journey continues, Second Compendium of Restored Cortos arising from the Factory of the Inventor Brothers of the Cinema, after Light shoves! Commience its journey (2017). Frémaux’s voice is the one which guides and explains to the general public the treasures that disguise these brief filmed by the operators employed by the Lumière, technicians on the similar time that artists who traveled everywhere in the world rolling and projecting movies (the identical gadget was used).

Ask. Suddenly, in 5 years, two profitable movies of the Golden Palm, Parasites y Anora, They take the Oscar for finest movie. That had solely occurred in 1955 with Marty. What occurred?

Answer. It has been a course of that comes from afar, from, for instance, Mystic River, of Clint Eastwood, in 2003, or the Coen brothers with It will not be a rustic for previous, In 2008. They are movies that after passing via Cannes gained an Oscar award. But on this version now we have not solely had Hollywood awards winners as Anora, Flow, the substance o Emilia Pérez, however from the competition additionally they began The Amprentice, the needle woman o The seed of the sacred fig. It has already been clear you could begin in Cannes in May and attain the Oscars in February or March.

I just like the idea of the journey, that journey that about 60 movies start within the contest, chosen from the two,000 that come to us, a visit for which the choice committee not solely take into consideration what we like, but in addition what these films of at present’s cinema say ”at present”

P. Don’t you assume there’s a paradigm shift? To the inclusive coverage of the Hollywood Academy, which now has 25% of resident members exterior the US, the abandonment of the majors of grownup cinema.

R. True, though final yr Hollywood introduced two jobs that I actually like: Oppenheimer y Barbie. Cannes had been The space of ​​curiosity, anatomy of a fall o Perfect Days. I just like the idea of the journey, that journey that about 60 movies start within the contest, chosen from the two,000 that arrive at us, a visit for which the choice committee not solely take into consideration what we like, but in addition what these films of at present’s cinema say. We select, we program them within the part during which they may get hold of larger resonance, we hope that they may begin an exquisite existence … Sometimes we’re additionally inquisitive about how they are going to be acquired.

P. An instance?

R. We needed to see what occurred within the projection of The substance, What was seen by criticism and public. We are on the lookout for movies that mirror the intention of an writer, who’re born of the pleasure of writing with the cinema, of advancing on this artwork.

P. That directs us to the Lumière brothers.

R. It is that they create language, kind. Now, 130 years later, there are creators who brew up for reinvention. The cinema will live on, as a result of he has been asserting his demise virtually since his beginning. In the final 5 years, after confinement and platforms, that unfavourable wave elevated … and but right here we’re.

P. In the Oscar gala there was a sketch With scorsese concerning the fatigue of seeing movies in streaming And the potential for overcoming it with a brand new idea, cinestreams, a constructing with an modern thought during which 800 mobiles persist with create a big display screen that’s held on a wall … Come on, a movie show.

R. That was, 130 years in the past, the triumph of the Lumière, supporters of the massive display screen, on Thomas A. Edison, which most popular particular person projections. The want of that point is identical at present. You need to see The Brutalist and take heed to Bob Dylan on the massive display screen.

P. How do you are taking your place?

R. Well, we selected a 14 committee, not simply me. We should know what now we have, what’s the common degree, the environment of the yr. Then, we match them. The part, the day, the time … every little thing is vital. And rejecting 1,940 movies, once you additionally like some, it isn’t straightforward. Although it’s important to give excellent news to 60. I take pleasure in an enormous privilege, to be the primary to look at the brand new film of many creators.

P. What administrators may the present Lumière be?

R. The Lumière, first, had been inventors, so they might be concerned in synthetic intelligence. His cinema is a straightforward cinema, the cinema of innocence. That is why it’s so vital to get well these works at present, as a result of it takes us again to innocence. Look, within the sequence of the helicopters of Apocalypse Now Seven helicopters seem and nothing else. Today a director, with the digital results, would begin asking for 2 extra; No, three extra; No, 4 extra. And but, the picture created by Francis Ford Coppola continues to triumph as a result of it’s an natural, non -digital cinema.

Louis Lumière is Rossellini, and Méliès, Fellini. Méliès reinvents the world with the phantasm, with the magic, with the creativeness. And Lumière takes actuality to do poetry “

P. This second installment is not a second part, it can be seen without having seen the first. And goes further in time and the subject.

R. The first was the expression of a presentation, of a show that I did for years. This is different, we show 120 shorts of 50 seconds that with the restoration resurrect after 130 years without seeing. It is very important to remember that these operators are also directors: they project and film, decide where to put the camera and make up the staging, which replaces a concept not yet invented, the assembly. They think how to tell a story with moving images.

P. It is a French film and in turn it is a world film.

R. Because they travel all over the world: from Japan to the United States, from the United Kingdom to Africa. And, as you can see, Spain. It is our responsibility to protect that world heritage and our duty, show it. We retain 1,422 films of the Lumière factory, because they only rolled between 1895 and 1905. Only only 17 have been lost. There are also five hundred offices. In total, almost 2,000 had to get out of there. The film also serves to land a topic, which says that Louis Lumière created the documentary and Georges Méliès fiction. No. Louis Lumière is Rossellini, and Méliès, Fellini. Méliès reinvents the world with illusion, with magic, with imagination. And Lumière takes reality to do poetry. Bresson or Eisenstein are children of Lumière. For me Méliès and Lumière are not opposite, but complementary.

P. Probably they, the operators of that time and the creators of now ask themselves the same question …

R. … what is where to place the camera. It is a miracle.

P. Where do you think cinema is going?

R. I am writing something right now about it. And I think the cinema in the future will be strengthened.

P. I return to the present. What is your opinion about the Karla Sofía Gascón case?

R. The writer of the work have to be separated, to the work of an actress from his tweets. We can not choose a movie for these unlucky messages, you can not undergo Emilia Pérez The punishment he has acquired for that. Karla Sofia appears to me an unbelievable and really pleasant individual, and an incomparable actress. My place is that artists shouldn’t be excellent. That is why the episode saddened me. Also … Look, I do not hope that an actress, a author or a footballer tells me what I’ve to consider some points. My kid’s idol was the bike owner Eddy Merckx, and I’ve by no means met his political views. There had been no social networks both. Do you realize what we’d like at present? More love.