Fabrice Luchini may go on stage alone to read La Fontaine's fables or Victor Hugo's poems, but he has been picked. On Saturday evening, at the opening of the Lumière Festival, the Tony-Garnier hall, with its impressive capacity (4500 seats), gave him a standing ovation worthy of a rock star. The actor put on a show, moved and vibrant, in front of an audience of anonymous people, big names in cinema (Terry Gilliam, Alexander Payne, Wes Anderson) and popular stars (Karin Viard, Dany Boon or Daniel Prévost).
The Lumière Festival is celebrating its fifteenth edition. The formula, both silly and brilliant, remains unchanged: mixing heritage films and premieres, classics and unreleased films, retrospectives and master classes, ghosts on screens and artists in cinemas. No menu but a pantagruelic menu. It's up to the festival-goer to compose their meal, according to their appetite, tastes and desires. To discover The Zone of Interest, by Jonathan Glazer, winner of the Grand Prix at the last Cannes Film Festival, or to watch A Taxi again...
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