A phone call is a pretty good sign. A text message makes you less optimistic.
“I received a lot of text messages that were a bit cold,”
confirms Alexandra Henochsberg, producer and distributor at the head of Ad Vitam.
For a filmmaker, it’s a difficult time to go through…”
The ritual is immutable. Wednesday April 10, the day before the press conference for the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, they will not sleep all night. “They”, that is to say the actors of the French cinema industry. Like every year, they wait, feverishly, for the sanction. Thierry Frémaux, the general delegate, announced the official selection the next morning. They already know, sometimes only around midnight, whether or not they will be among the lucky ones.
Carole Baraton, international salesperson at Charades, was able to verify the Cannes effect last year with
The Goldman Trial
, by Cédric Kahn. “
The film had not been pre-sold to foreign distributors on a script. A specialized subject, a Franco-French story, with…
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