“I understand that Trump is trying to protect.”
Such was Cannes Film Festival Judge Juliette Binoche‘s answer to being grilled about the topic of now, Donald Trump‘s potential tariffs on film and TV imports to the U.S.
“For us, we have a strong community of filmmaking on our continent in Europe; I don’t know what to say — I can see that he’s fighting to save America and to save his ass.”
But for the most part when it comes to Trump’s consideration of film and TV tariffs for productions shot outside the U.S., the Oscar winning star of The English Patient admits “I’m not acceptable to answer that.”
Yesterday, in during the festival’s first presser, Cannes Director Thierry Fremaux thought it was was way too early to talk about Trump’s notion of film and TV production tariffs. Nonetheless, he Fremaux emphasized that cinema would prevail. “Cinema always finds a way of existing and reinventing itself,” said Fremaux, while also exclaiming, ““The idea that American Cinema would be penalized by foreign countries, I think that is an idea worth discussing.”
This year’s jury includes President Juliette Binoche, Jeremy Strong, Halle Berry, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo, Congolese director Diedo Hamadi, Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas, and French Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani.
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