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Breaking Baz @ Cannes: “Even If I’m Fired, I Stay,” Declares Defiant Thierry Frémaux; Festival Victors Dance The Night Away After Strongest Selection In Years
”Even if I’m fired,I stay,” declares defiant Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux
I note that Nadia Melliti who is French-Algerian heritage was named best actress for her beautifully captured performance as a young woman discovering her attraction for other women in Hafsia Herzi’s The Little Sister, while it seemed that the the Cannes bubble was cheering for Jennifer Lawrence to win for Die, My Love – Lynne Ramsay’s incendiary study of the disintegration of a marriage. I tell Frémaux that it angers me that people forget that Cannes represents the whole world, not just the white western bit of it, and that cinema isn’t just the shiny and splashy stuff from Hollywood. They’ve been friends for years and, back in the day, shared an apartment with three others in St. John’s Wood, NW London, while they were students at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield.
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