Cannes has always been a battleground for protesters, with women’s issues rising to the forefront recently, and expected to take center stage this year. But 50 years ago, France’s national strikes reached the festival, with filmmakers taking up the cause for widespread change. They managed to shut down the festival.
You have to remember that Francois Truffaut had not digested the fact that Henri Langlois, the fou nder of the French Cinematheque, had been put aside by the minister [Andre] Malraux under the pretense that Langlois was disorganized and that the finances were poorly managed. But Truffaut adored Langlois, and well before May, he had started leading with fervor the demonstrations to have Langlois reinstated. But then, a few weeks later, the “seditious” — as we called those acrimonious filmmakers who had come to Cannes to stop the festival — arrived in Cannes in the middle of the film celebrations, and it...
You have to remember that Francois Truffaut had not digested the fact that Henri Langlois, the fou nder of the French Cinematheque, had been put aside by the minister [Andre] Malraux under the pretense that Langlois was disorganized and that the finances were poorly managed. But Truffaut adored Langlois, and well before May, he had started leading with fervor the demonstrations to have Langlois reinstated. But then, a few weeks later, the “seditious” — as we called those acrimonious filmmakers who had come to Cannes to stop the festival — arrived in Cannes in the middle of the film celebrations, and it...
- 5/7/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Les Adieux a la reine (Farewell, My Queen) and the other winners of the 2012 Prix Louis-Delluc Awards have been announced. The 70th annual Prix Louis-Delluc (Louis Delluc Prize) is a French film award bestowed upon on the best French film of the year founded “in 1937 by Maurice Bessy and Marcel Idzkowski [...]
Continue reading: Prix Louis-Delluc Awards 2012: Winners: Farewell, My Queen / Les Adieux A La Reine...
Continue reading: Prix Louis-Delluc Awards 2012: Winners: Farewell, My Queen / Les Adieux A La Reine...
- 12/15/2012
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
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