The Champs-Elysées Film Festival, window on a world dreamed of and chaotic

events of the summer, she is one of those who held good. Coronavirus or not, out of the question to deprive the fans of the Champs-Elysées Film Festival, to Sophie Dulac. Health crisis forces, this is not on the most beautiful avenue in the world that the organizer of the event has been given an appointment to lovers of independent cinema this year, but in line, for a ninth edition of "solidarity" .

And the public responded to the call of the producer. So many, that the approximately 500-seat virtual projection of the Jumbo in the opening night last Tuesday, were taken by assault by thousands of festival-goers, overloading the servers and making the viewing impossible for nearly an hour. A technical problem bodes well for the film director Zoe Wittock, including the film, which tells the love story between a young girl and a carousel, will have no trouble finding its audience for its theatrical release on July 1st. Before this trip, hallucinated, well served by his photography and his talented performers (Noémie Merlant, Emmanuelle Bercot and Bastien Bouillon), there is no doubt that the independent cinema in French of beautiful days in front of him. And the young authors don't lack creativity to tell stories that fascinate.