Thierry Frémaux

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Writer-director Bertrand Tavernier is truly one of the grand auteurs of the movies. His experience is vast, his knowledge is voluminous, his love is inexhaustible and his perspective is matched only by that of Martin Scorsese. This magnificent, epic documentary has been a lifetime in the making. Tavernier knows his native cinema inside and out, from the giants like Renoir, Godard, and Melville (for whom he worked as an assistant) to now overlooked and forgotten figures like Edmund T. Gréville and Guy Gilles, and his observations and reminiscences are never less than penetrating and always deeply personal.

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My Journey Through French Cinema (2016)

Thierry Frémaux was born in Tullins outside Grenoble and grew up in the Minguettes suburb of Lyon. He has been the artistic director and then managing director of the Institut Lumière in Lyon since 1995. He became the artistic director of the Cannes Film Festival in 2004 and general delegate in 2007.

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Awards
- 4 wins & 2 nominations

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Lumière!

8.1

Producer

2016

Lumière! L'aventure continue

7.0

Director

2024

The Lumière Brothers' First Films

8.1

Editor

1996

Le précinéma et les lanternes magiques

Short

Producer

2007

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Producer

Sortie d'usine 2017
5.4
Short
- producer
- 2017
Lumière!
8.1
- producer
- 2016
Cercle vicieux
Short
- commissioning editor: Cannes Film Festival
- 2010
Le précinéma et les lanternes magiques
Short
- co-producer
- 2007

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Credits his father, an electric engineer, for introducing him to cinema.

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To be selected at Cannes is a privilege and it must remain so. But the world is changing and Cannes must ask all the questions that will be asked at the biggest festival in the world. The great museums show the great painters. Cannes shows the great filmmakers. Today, everything is more difficult, less relaxed, with more limited financial and economic issues. Gone is the time when Fellini and Mastroianni were walking freely on the Croisette. [2014]