“Spectateurs!” interview with director Arnaud Desplechin

Spectateurs! by Arnaud Desplechin, special screening at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, is a love letter to cinema and its audience.

“This film is not an apology for directors I loved, or actresses and actors – explains Desplechin. It’s a depiction of what happens to common spectators. What does it do to us to watch films? How does it subconsciously affect us?”

Walking in the footsteps of a young Paul Dédalus, as the film were a coming of age story, Desplechin builds a mix of documentary, fiction and fantasy to analyze what cinema means to all of us.

There’s no such thing as a film more important or relevant than other, there are no guilty pleasures when it comes to films. Films are a popular art and we’re equal when looking at a white screen in the movie theatre.

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