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Marseille and the South dream of Hollywood

2021-10-14T15:28:36.170Z


INVESTIGATION - Despite the local bickering, the film industry is getting ready for battle to establish itself from 2024 as a global filming center, just like London, Paris and Los Angeles.


It was last spring.

Costa-Gavras, president of the Cinémathèque française, telephones Robert Guédiguian and Ariane Ascaride.

"He had the idea of ​​creating a Marseille branch of the Cinémathèque,"

says the filmmaker of

Marius and Jeannette

.

I chair the Cinémathèque de Toulouse,

Thierry Frémaux

(General delegate of the Festival de Cannes -

Editor's note

)

directs the Lumière Institute in Lyon but in Marseille, there has never been anything.

When I was a teenager in the 1970s, to see the Ingmar Bergman cycles, I went to

Le

Breteuil

at the top of the Old Port.

It sounds crazy today but it was sold out. ”

The "old truckers" immediately descend into

tight rank in Marseille.

“I shot all my films there, that's where I was born,”

says Robert Guédiguian.

At the town hall, their proposal was greeted with sympathy by the socialist mayor Benoît Payan and Jean-Marc Coppola, his deputy for culture (PCF).

Elected officials are all the more friendly as Robert Guédiguian supported their campaign in the elections

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Source: lefigaro

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