French cinema loves to hate Netflix while regularly picking up its pockets.
During December, the American giant planned to organize a series of event screenings around some of its feature films.
Most will already be available on the platform.
Only a small handful of works will be previewed.
According to
Le Film Français
, this “Netflix Festival” should take place in around ten arthouse theaters of the MK2, Utopia and Lumière networks by Thierry Frémaux in Lyon.
The project is not yet complete that it is already causing an outcry among the union of independent distributors (SDI) and the united European independent distributors (DIRE).
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After the announced launch of Jane Campion's new film, exclusively on Netflix, on Wednesday December 1, a symbolic day for film releases in the cinema, Netflix has therefore succeeded in transforming cinemas into an antechamber to its services
", criticize the two organizations in a press release
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