Lynne Ramsay, Rebecca Zlotowski, Agnes Jaoui Breakthrough On Guy-Laden Cannes Director Panel; Nicolas Winding Refn Makes Surprise Appearance
deadline.comIn part deux today of the Cannes Film Festival symposium on cinema, three female filmmakers were represented in You Were Never Really Here‘s Lynne Ramsay and Grand Central‘s Rebecca Zlotowski and French actress/director/scribe Agnes Jaoui, unlike yesterday when it was all men.
The festival on social media took a licking for being tone deaf in the wake of yesterday’s panel.Cannes Film Festival Boss Thierry Frémaux returned with Guillermo del Toro to lead what was, again, another three hour discussion about the potential death of cinema and its future.“There will always be obstacles,” said Ramsay, “Necessity is the mother of invention.
You shouldn’t feel depressed because of difficulties, even if my 7-year-old daughter says to me, ‘Mom, don’t make movies anymore, you have the look so sad!”Jaoui, who won Best Screenplay for Look at Me at Cannes in 2004, spoke about how in regards to job offers, it’s streaming/TV winning out: “I’m at the stage in my career where if my next film is in the cinema, it’s for a few and not much money.
If I make a series, it might be more money and easier in the sense, but far more constraints.”When asked by Frémaux about the future of the big screen, Jaoui said that won’t stop her in her career.“I couldn’t stop doing what I do.
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