The Cannes Film Festival’s decision to scrap morning press screenings ahead of gala premieres has received a chilly reception from the guild of French film critics (Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinema).In a letter issued Monday, the guild said that festival chief Thierry Fremaux should have explored other solutions to cater to filmmakers’ sensibilities during their gala premieres – for instance, imposing timed embargoes on reviews.
Instead, Fremaux’s plan to have critics watch the film in an adjacent auditorium at the same time as the evening premiere unspools is impractical, the guild said, since the Debussy theater seats 1,068 and the festival hosts 4,000 accredited critics.In previous years, critics could attend three different matinee screenings of a film ahead of its red-carpet premiere in the evening.
The guild said that those who can’t get in to the 7 p.m.
premiere-hour screening in the Debussy would have to
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