2023-05-20 14:14:27
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Festival you filmLuxembourg also makes its cinema in Cannes
LUXEMBOURG/CANNES – Celebrating successes while driving change. Luxembourg cinema met at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. Under the eyes of Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and the Grand Ducal couple.
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- our special correspondent in Cannes, Thomas Holzer
Prime Minister Xavier Bettel also made the trip.
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Grand Duchess Maria Teresa in deep conversation with actress Marie Jung, whom L’essentiel met approaching his first stair climb.
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“It’s the only time of the year when Luxembourg has access to the sea”, launched Guy Daleiden, director of the Film Fund in the preamble to Luxembourg Day at the Cannes Film Festival, while joking regarding the capricious weather on a Saturday. May on the Côte d’Azur. After more than 20 years of presence on the Croisette, the Luxembourg film industry is well aware of the ups and downs. Good surprises too with a slew of nominations for its co-productions this year.
For the occasion, the success of Luxembourg cinema was celebrated with great fanfare with the welcome of the Grand Ducal couple and the participation of Xavier Bettel, “a regular at the place”, laughed Mr. Daleiden.
Luxembourg Day in Cannes (Video: The Essential)
“But the presence of Luxembourg is not just regarding the red carpet, the rhinestones, the glitter and the sun”, considered the Prime Minister, in praise of diversity and tolerance. “Film and culture in general are not expenses, they are investments that bring us together. We are there to finance reflection, not to make box offices. Cinema is a cement of our society”.
Develop “a cinema that is unique to us”
But for the Luxembourg edifice to continue to rise, certain challenges appear to be unavoidable. While the representatives of the various professions of the 7th art welcomed the international success of actors and actresses from Luxembourg – Vicky Krieps in the first place – Guy Daleiden insisted on a sector prone to change. Including in the Grand Duchy.
“The first will be to ensure the transition with the younger generation, the second to promote diversity between men, women, non-binaries, and the third to take more account of the ecology and sustainability of productions”. In this regard, the boss of the Film Fund might only recognize that the Luxembourg model of attracting productions was “not very ecological”.
Luxembourg in Cannes (Video: The essentials)
And yet it must survive. Just as professionals would welcome the development of “a cinema that is unique to us”, in the words of Yann Tonnar, president of the Film Academy, capitalizing on the success of Luxembourg stars.
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