Special envoy to Busan (Korea)
Standing, facing the thousands of spectators wrapped up in their parka, Emmanuel Mouret hums
La Javanaise
at the microphone, under the audacious awning covering the glittering Busan Cinema Center, which looks like a flying saucer.
The moist air coming from the nearby harbour, slaloming between the skyscrapers, carried away an audience won over by
Chronicle of a Passing Liaison
, one of the 23 French films presented at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), the “Asian Cannes”, which marks its big comeback after two years of pandemic.
A crowd of great evenings for this rare open-air screening of an auteur film carried with enthusiasm by the duo Sandrine Kiberlain and Vincent Macaigne, defying the evening freshness of Korean autumn.
“A festival with an audience changes everything!
Here, there is an extraordinary enthusiasm.
It is a real country of cinema!”
, ignites Serge Toubiana, president of Unifrance, in the gardens of the Paradise Hotel, facing the wide beach…
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