Cannes director wants sun, most directors and less selfies – El Universal – Colombia

Two trends are clear at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Women come, the selfies will

The festival director Thierry Fremaux, answered questions from women directors and selfies the program was announced last month, revealing that saw the self-pictures as “ridiculous” scourge of the red carpet.

The festival, which mixes big names of Hollywood auteur artists begins on Wednesday with “” La tête haute “(” Standing Tall “) by the director Emmanuelle Bercot, the first woman who opened the prestigious event in over 25 years.

Fremaux, who has overseen the festival since 2001, knows that the selection will not silence criticism of an event that continues siendo_ as industry cine_ dominated by men. Only two of the 19 directors competing for the top prize at Cannes, the Palme d’Or, they are women, although there are more filmmakers among dozens of other films that will be shown throughout the 12-day festival.

Fremaux insists, “it is not quite true” that women are represented in Cannes. “For the selection choose movies, artists, not men or women, young or old,” he said Tuesday. “But I’m not saying that is not a problem. If you have a problem. We need more women, more directors in world cinema”.

opinion that is an issue that should be discussed throughout the year, not only during the film festival, “to go to the root of why, while we have many women singers and novelists, we have so many directors”.

The program this year is also notable for the amount of English films in non-English speaking directors, including “Youth” by Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, starring Michael Caine, and “Louder Than Bombs”, a film of Norwegian director Joachim Trier set in New York.

Fremaux believes that although English is the global lingua franca, most filmmakers continue to work in their native languages. “When a movie is filmed in Latin America, with a very, very Argentine or Chilean or Brazilian content, should be in their own language,” he said.

One day before the opening, while crews are preparing to roll out the red carpet on the steps of the Palais des Festivals, Fremaux expected a good time to cement the image of Cannes as a playground for sun-kissed film and sensuality.

“The nightmare is rain the first day, “he said. “So people think that the festival was clear, even if sometimes it was just one day. But it seems that we will have enough luck.” He also hopes that his call against selfies it worked.

“Last year was a problem,” he said. “Each three pictures he took himself on red carpets of each film. There are 2,000 seats (in the main theater), so we are getting late.”

Fremaux stated pleased that a important fashion magazine agrees with him and declared: “.. It’s over If you want to be fashionable, please do not take one selfie”