Could the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival herald the gradual return of the French to theaters?
This is what the directors and actors present in the city of Charente felt at the end of the screening of their films.
The Franco-Algerian filmmaker Mohamed Hamidi, director of
La Vache
and the beautiful film
Citoyen d'honneur
(released on September 14), with Kad Merad, about a Nobel Prize-winning writer returning to his native village in Algeria, testifies:
" The reception of my new film has been tremendous.
In times of cinema scarcity, it's great to see more than 1200 spectators seated and ready to enthusiastically share your film.
Seeing eight full rooms like that was incredible.”
This 15th edition, launched Tuesday evening by Line Renaud and Dany Boon who came to present the comedy-drama
Une belle course
by Christian Carion, seemed to prefigure the return to theaters of the French after two years of estrangement due to the pandemic and the the rise in power…
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