INTERVIEW
In May 2020, the Croisette was desperately left empty. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Cannes Film Festival has been canceled ... but the organizers intend to come back next year. At the microphone of Europe 1 on Saturday, Thierry Frémaux, general delegate of the Festival and director of the Lumière Institute of Lyon, explained that it was essential that the 2021 edition be "a great Cannes Festival" in order to "restart the film industry around the world ".
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"We would like, and he too for that matter"
"The world economy will resume its cruising speed in 2022, but the cinema must start again in May 2021", affirms Thierry Frémaux. Because like all sectors requiring the public, the seventh art collapsed during confinement. And the recovery is slow to arrive. On Friday, the National Cinema Center announced that attendance at French cinemas had collapsed, with more than 70% decline in July.
Could this restart hoped for by Thierry Frémaux be done with Spike Lee as president of the Jury, he who should have been in 2021? "We would like, and he too for that matter, that we jump on this dreadful year 2020 and that we all find ourselves in 2021", declared the general delegate of the Festival de Cannes at the microphone of Europe 1. If the sanitary conditions allow it, the Cannes Film Festival will therefore be well organized in May 2021 and Spike Lee should be at the head of the jury.