The text has been shaking La Croisette for several days. The Minister of Culture Catherine Pégard said this Tuesday that she regretted the “disproportionate” response from the boss of Canal + who declared that he no longer wanted to work with the signatories of an anti-Bolloré forum.
“The major place of this company in cinema gives it a voice that counts. I regret that the response, disproportionate at the very least, given to the very real concerns expressed, has heightened them,” the minister said during the government questions session.
Catherine Pégard assures that she has “heard the emotion, the concern which is expressed in the cinema sector, as they have been expressed in the book sector recently” and hopes that “reason and dialogue can prevail over threats”.
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The Society of Film Directors (SRF), which brings together 500 filmmakers, also called on Tuesday for “mediation” between the signatories of the platform and the Canal + cinema teams in order to “reestablish the trust.”
Initially launched by 600 professionals, this forum denouncing “the growing influence of the extreme right” in the 7th art under the influence of Vincent Bolloré, now has more than 1,600 signatories, according to the Zapper Bolloré collective.
