Cannes Chief Thierry Fremaux on Booing, Walkouts, Selection ‘Mistakes’

Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux isn’t bothered if audiences express their disapproval, and admits he sometimes makes mistakes in his selection.

“I don’t care about people booing.

It is part of the game,” he says, speaking at r7al, an event in Lausanne, Switzerland that is devoted to classic movies.Fremaux and his team receive about 1,800 feature film submissions a year, of which 300-400 are “good” or “very good,” he says.

From these, only 20 films can enter competition.

The Cannes team have to accept “responsibility for our choices,” he says.

“I know we make two or three mistakes a year.”Cannes is dependent on the quality of the films available to it, and that varies from year to year.

“You have good years, and bad years, like wine.

If you have good sun in spring, you have good wine in October.

It’s the same with films,

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