Cannes's Thierry Fremaux Takes on the Women Question: "Attack the Oscars, not the festival!"

As Cannes Film Festival General Delegate, Thierry Fremaux is accustomed to the limelight. But over the past few years he has been constantly on the defensive on the issue of the numbers of women directors in the Cannes Official Selection. At one of he continuing conversations at the Women in Motion series that has heightened awareness of women in world cinema over the festival--as one high-profile interviewee after another has lambasted the industry for its gender inequality--Fremaux admitted that this year he would have liked some credit for the increasing representation of women's directors, from opening with Emmanuelle Bercot's "Standing Tall" to awarding a special award to...

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