Iris Knobloch, the president of the Cannes Film Festival takes on Hollywood

2023-05-16 08:00:00

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The former president of Warner Bros France wants to relaunch the attractiveness of the Festival. Netflix is ​​“welcome out of competition”. Portrait and confidences.

Pair Olivier Ubertalli

Published on 05/16/2023 at 08:00

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VThis cream-coloured woman with golden buttons and piercing blue eyes, Iris Knobloch receives amid the joyful whirling of a little jack russell terrier and boxes that litter the Parisian offices of the Cannes Film Festival, which begins this Tuesday, May 16. Its teams are preparing to take up residence on the Croisette.

For her first edition experienced from the inside, the new president of the Cannes Film Festival, who succeeded Pierre Lescure in July 2022, expects a “long marathon”. “It’s the mind that counts,” breathes the one who has repeatedly walked the red carpet as president of Warner Bros France. She notably accompanied Clint Eastwood there for the twenty-five years ofRuthlessChristopher Nolan during the restoration of the 2001, a space odyssey by Stanley Kubrick or…