René Chateau, major distributor of popular French films, has died. Little known to the general public, this secret and controversial businessman was an essential character in the world of the 7th art.
Born in Le Mans in 1940, the man who was a tiler, journalist and even an advertiser established himself as the largest independent distributor of French films at the cost of strong enmities in the industry. “He opened the doors of dreams and memories for us with his collection of exceptional films: ‘The Memory of French Cinema’. We will cruelly miss him.