This week’s surprise news of conservative politician Rachida Dati becoming France’s new Culture Minister provoked an earthquake within the country’s predominantly left-leaning film and TV industry.
Dati was appointed on Jan. 11 to succeed Rima Abdul Malak as Culture Minister as part of a reshuffle of France’s President Emmanuel Macron, which also saw 34-year-old Gabriel Attal becoming Prime Minister.
A combative straight shooter with an acerbic of humor and a definite sense of style, Dati is currently mayor of the posh 7th arrondissement where she regularly mingles with stars residing in the neighborhood. But her appointment as Culture Minister was welcomed with vitriolic headlines across the media and was called out by a large chunk of the film and TV biz as a casting error. The high profile politician is seen as a potential threat to the industry’s unique model of “cultural exception,” where independent, diverse filmmaking is nurtured through subsidies,...
Dati was appointed on Jan. 11 to succeed Rima Abdul Malak as Culture Minister as part of a reshuffle of France’s President Emmanuel Macron, which also saw 34-year-old Gabriel Attal becoming Prime Minister.
A combative straight shooter with an acerbic of humor and a definite sense of style, Dati is currently mayor of the posh 7th arrondissement where she regularly mingles with stars residing in the neighborhood. But her appointment as Culture Minister was welcomed with vitriolic headlines across the media and was called out by a large chunk of the film and TV biz as a casting error. The high profile politician is seen as a potential threat to the industry’s unique model of “cultural exception,” where independent, diverse filmmaking is nurtured through subsidies,...
- 1/14/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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Has #MeToo Finally Arrived in France?
Watershed: The past week has felt like a watershed moment for the #MeToo movement in France. The country’s film industry has been at the forefront of efforts to foster gender parity thanks to pioneering activist group Le Collectif 50/50 and initiatives such as the festival charter, along with extra state funding for movies hiring women for key crew positions. However, a culture of silence around allegations of sexual abuse by big figures such as Roman Polanski and Gérard Depardieu has long been a source of debate and consternation in and outside of the country. There are signs that a major shift is underway following a bombshell...
Has #MeToo Finally Arrived in France?
Watershed: The past week has felt like a watershed moment for the #MeToo movement in France. The country’s film industry has been at the forefront of efforts to foster gender parity thanks to pioneering activist group Le Collectif 50/50 and initiatives such as the festival charter, along with extra state funding for movies hiring women for key crew positions. However, a culture of silence around allegations of sexual abuse by big figures such as Roman Polanski and Gérard Depardieu has long been a source of debate and consternation in and outside of the country. There are signs that a major shift is underway following a bombshell...
- 1/12/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Newly appointed French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal took France’s political and media spheres by surprise on Thursday as he named controversial politician Rachida Dati as his culture minister.
Her arrival in the new-look centrist cabinet was unexpected given that Dati was a spokesperson for centre-right President Nicolas Sarkozy during his presidential campaign and was Justice Minister from 2007 to 2009 under his presidency.
The appointment was made as part of a government cabinet reshuffle rolled out by Attal just two days after he became France’s youngest ever prime minister in a move by President Emmanuel Macron to reboot his presidency, which began with a centre-left mandate but is now moving the dial to the right.
Dati replaces Rima Abdul Malak whose position has been looking fragile in recent weeks after she found herself at odds with Macron over her suggestion that Gérard Depardieu should be stripped of his Legion Of...
Her arrival in the new-look centrist cabinet was unexpected given that Dati was a spokesperson for centre-right President Nicolas Sarkozy during his presidential campaign and was Justice Minister from 2007 to 2009 under his presidency.
The appointment was made as part of a government cabinet reshuffle rolled out by Attal just two days after he became France’s youngest ever prime minister in a move by President Emmanuel Macron to reboot his presidency, which began with a centre-left mandate but is now moving the dial to the right.
Dati replaces Rima Abdul Malak whose position has been looking fragile in recent weeks after she found herself at odds with Macron over her suggestion that Gérard Depardieu should be stripped of his Legion Of...
- 1/11/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
French President Emmanuel Macron made history on Tuesday as he appointed 34-year-old politician Gabriel Attal as France’s youngest ever prime minister.
Macron has a complex relationship with France’s cinema industry, where his pension reforms, attitude to cultural funding and support of Gérard Depardieu have come under fire from some quarters, but his new prime minister comes with interesting film world connections.
The new rising star of French politics is the son of late lawyer and film producer Yves Attal, who took credits on Pedro Almodóvar’s High Heels, Roberto Benigni’s The Monster and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty.
Attal’s mother Marie de Couriss also worked in a production company.
As a teenager, Attal had a small role in Christophe Honoré’s 2008 drama The Beautiful Person co-starring Louis Garrel and Léa Seydoux.
But Attal chose not to follow in his parents’ footsteps.
After private schooling at Paris’s prestigious École Alsacienne,...
Macron has a complex relationship with France’s cinema industry, where his pension reforms, attitude to cultural funding and support of Gérard Depardieu have come under fire from some quarters, but his new prime minister comes with interesting film world connections.
The new rising star of French politics is the son of late lawyer and film producer Yves Attal, who took credits on Pedro Almodóvar’s High Heels, Roberto Benigni’s The Monster and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty.
Attal’s mother Marie de Couriss also worked in a production company.
As a teenager, Attal had a small role in Christophe Honoré’s 2008 drama The Beautiful Person co-starring Louis Garrel and Léa Seydoux.
But Attal chose not to follow in his parents’ footsteps.
After private schooling at Paris’s prestigious École Alsacienne,...
- 1/9/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Public broadcasting to be funded via Vat instead.
France’s National Assembly has voted to abolish the TV licence fee in favour of financing public broadcasting through Vat.
The €138 annual TV licence bill is paid by every household in France with a television set. It raises €3.7 billion a year, which is invested in public broadcasting.
Of this, 65 is allocated to France Télévisions, 15.9 to Radio France, 7.5 to Arte, 7 to France Médias Monde, 2.4 to audiovisual archive agency Ina and 2.1 to TV5 Monde. The remainder of their budgets are made up through advertising and other state subsidies.
The National Assembly voted to scrap...
France’s National Assembly has voted to abolish the TV licence fee in favour of financing public broadcasting through Vat.
The €138 annual TV licence bill is paid by every household in France with a television set. It raises €3.7 billion a year, which is invested in public broadcasting.
Of this, 65 is allocated to France Télévisions, 15.9 to Radio France, 7.5 to Arte, 7 to France Médias Monde, 2.4 to audiovisual archive agency Ina and 2.1 to TV5 Monde. The remainder of their budgets are made up through advertising and other state subsidies.
The National Assembly voted to scrap...
- 7/28/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Delegates are expressing alarm at the lack of social distancing measures in place.
International delegates have expressed unease about the lack of social distancing and masks at jam-packed screenings in the Grand Theatre Lumiere and the Salle Debussy in the Palais and at other festival events. On the streets, the nightly red carpet photo call is also attracting the familiar crush of pavement-blocking celebrity-spotters on the Croisette, with no distancing measures in place.
Attendees at the opening-night ceremony reported entry to the 100% capacity venues was granted with just a ticket. No vaccine status certificate, Pcr test result or festival accreditation was required.
International delegates have expressed unease about the lack of social distancing and masks at jam-packed screenings in the Grand Theatre Lumiere and the Salle Debussy in the Palais and at other festival events. On the streets, the nightly red carpet photo call is also attracting the familiar crush of pavement-blocking celebrity-spotters on the Croisette, with no distancing measures in place.
Attendees at the opening-night ceremony reported entry to the 100% capacity venues was granted with just a ticket. No vaccine status certificate, Pcr test result or festival accreditation was required.
- 7/8/2021
- by Louise Tutt¬Melanie Goodfellow¬Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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