- Since March 21, France 2 has been broadcasting family comedies every day at 2 p.m.
- If these films accumulate strong audiences, they also arouse some criticisms of the lack of variety.
- Frédéric Bonnaud, director of the Cinémathèque française suggests that the channel also broadcasts classics of cinephilia.
After the Louis de Funès tunnel and before Michel Blanc's films, Dany Boon has the honors of the 2:00 pm screening on France 2. The meeting is now set up for confined viewers. Each afternoon, a classic of French cinema brightens the afternoon of the French. We were treated to Cabbage Soup , Grandpa made resistance or Rabbi Jacob.
And the audiences are there. Twice as many viewers as usual, and scores between 3 and 5 million viewers. Colossal. However, some complain about this very family-friendly programming, like the programs usually broadcast on this section: Tout compte fait and Vivement dimanche le week-end, It starts today and I love you etc. in Week.
Daddy's movie makes resistance
On social networks, we make fun of France 2 and its lack of imagination to offer films that have not been seen dozens of times. On the chain side, and while the programmers are working hard to make up for the lack of emissions impossible to rotate during confinement, we justify ourselves. “These are films that aim to reunite the family. Films that we are happy to see again with our children, positive films. "
Frédéric Bonnaud, director of the Cinémathèque française, pouted. “I have nothing against cinema on television. I am part of a generation that discovered cinema through television. I saw L'armée des ombres on France 3 and I really enjoyed myself. But I tell myself that on this box, they could be a little more daring… ”
Jean Epstein or Gérard Jugnot?
A new controversy "For or against French comedies" in sight? Not at all for Frédéric Bonnaud. “Louis de Funès is a giant. The Cinémathèque française was to inaugurate an exhibition on him on April 1. But it's not just him. French cinema is incredibly rich. "
For its part, the Cinémathèque precisely offers, for free, one film per day on its site. Pierre Clémenti, Jean Epstein, Otar Iosseliani on the program. It is sure that we are far from the Choristers… But do we not then fall into the opposite excess? "We broadcast the rare films for which we have the rights," explains Frédéric Bonnaud. This device is a kind of fourth screen for us, since our three rooms are closed. But we cannot show there the tens of thousands of films that we keep but for which we do not have the rights. Otherwise, I would go to jail… ”
A programming gesture
Television channels, on the other hand, have the possibility of showing classics of French cinema or arthouse films. “Television does not transmit the history of cinema at all and that's a shame. Showing De Funès is not enough. Learning cinema must be accompanied by a programming gesture, and that is what we do at the Cinémathèque with our cultural action in particular. "
To date, France 2 does not plan to complete its offer with more sophisticated films than those broadcast at 2 p.m. Perhaps this will be studied if, for example, series scheduled in prime time run out. "France 2 could say that, every evening, at midnight, there is a great heritage film, with some explanations of context," pleads Frédéric Bonnaud.
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