2023-11-14 02:06:18
Michel Ciment during a press conference for the film “A Hidden Life” at the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival, May 20, 2019. LAURENT EMMANUEL / AFP
Film critic Michel Ciment died at the age of 85, confirmed Monday evening, November 13, his entourage at France Inter.
“Michel Ciment was a reference in film criticism. France Inter listeners have heard his voice for more than 50 years in Le Masque et la Plume, wrote on X (ex-Twitter)Adèle Van Reeth, director of public radio.
He was also producer of the show “Projection privee” on France Culture from 1990 to 2016. “He dedicated his entire life to transmitting, through words and writing, his erudition and his passion for the seventh art”, paid tribute to France Culture on.
“Film criticism is shrinking like nothing”
Director of publication of the journal Positive which he joined in the 1960s, Michel Ciment was also a lecturer at the University of Paris VII, and author of books on cinema, notably on Stanley Kubrick, Elia Kazan, Joseph Losey, Francesco Rosi and Jane Campion.
“It is perhaps the freest, most encyclopedic spirit that film criticism has ever produced”declared Jérôme Garcin, producer of the show “Le Masque et la Plume”.
In the 1960s, “when we were critical, we weren’t afraid of making enemies. Today, film criticism is shrinking like nothing else”deplored Michel Ciment in an interview with Monde made in 2019. “Young people are more cautious. Perhaps they are secretly envious of a time when you could scrap metal. I had the advantage of being a teacher, with a monthly salary. It gave me total economic independence”he explained.
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