Víctor Erice despatched an open letter to clarify that he was not capable of converse with the director of the Cannes Film Festival to specify whether or not his new movie was going to take part within the official competitors or within the Filmmakers’ Fortnight’Close your eyes’ is the return to the cinema of the cult director after thirty years of absence Erice considers that Thierry Frémaux has ignored him and as an indication of protest he determined to not attend the movie’s presentation on the pageant
This Wednesday, May 24, the Cannes pageant skilled a disagreement between its director, Thierry Frémaux, and Víctor Erice on account of the part during which the brand new movie by the Spanish filmmaker, ‘Cerrar los ojos’, lastly participated, and which has led the filmmaker to not be current on the contest.
The cause is the collection of the movie to take part within the Filmmakers’ Fortnight and never within the competitors, as anticipated by Erice himself, who in an open letter despatched to the newspaper ‘El País’ defined that he tried to speak to Frémaux about it. one thing that was unimaginable.
In this letter, Erice explains that after receiving the Fortnight proposal, “instantly” she wrote to Thierry Frémaux to inform him that if Closing Your Eyes was not going to be chosen within the competitors for the Palme d’Or, “she would talk it in ample time.” . “It is one thing that’s customary to do, so as to have the ability to take into account the opposite choices that the movie was provided,” she remarked.
Those proposals have been from Cannes itself for the Filmmakers’ Fortnight and outdoors of Cannes (Locarno Festival or Venice Mostra). “But in that ready time, Frémaux by no means gave indicators of life. The Fortnight committee saved up its provide for weeks, till its protocols ran out of time,” lamented Erice, who lastly didn’t go final Monday to current his movie with the workforce.
In addition, he has defended that at no time did his movie arrive after the deadline for the competitors part and {that a} ultimate reduce with a “dependable account of the movie” in QuickTime format had been despatched to Cannes in March. “If the movie was able to be screened at Cannes Premiere, why to not be introduced in competitors?”, He has questioned her.
For its half, the pageant has responded to the open letter with a press release making certain that it’s “stunned” by these statements and remarking that the collection of ‘Close your eyes’ “was carried out beneath the same old situations”.
“The director was notified of the invitation to the Official Section of his movie on April 12. From the start there was a steady dialogue between Thierry Frémaux and Christian Jeune with the Spanish producer and the French distributor, additionally having an change between the Frémaux themselves and Erice”, affirms the competition.
“The Cannes Film Festival is the primary to be stunned by the ideas which might be being made relating to the collection of the movie as a result of, above all, it’s proud and completely happy to have welcomed ‘Close Your Eyes’ in its 76th version” , it’s completed.
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