Cannes Chief Thierry Frémaux on How He Selects Films and What Makes Him a Movie Buff: ‘It’s About the Auteurs: It’s About Martin Scorsese, Not About Bob De Niro’
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features Editor Speaking at the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia this week, Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Frémaux spoke with passion about his love of cinema. “If you love cinema, cinema will love you,” he said with emphasis.
He also sought to explain what made a “good film” for the world’s leading film festival. Frémaux, who is at Red Sea to present his documentary “Lumière!
The Adventure Continues,” emphasized that he would step down if his abilities as the festival’s artistic chief failed him. “One day it will be my destiny to do a bad selection,” he said. “If I do a second bad selection the next year, I will leave.
I will say: I am not connected anymore with the cinema of my times.” Asked to define what made a “good film,” Frémaux said: “I think there are two answers.
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