Cannes 2025: For Cédric Klapisch, cinema is a celebration

You have to go back exactly forty years to see Cédric Klapisch arrive from Paris at the Cannes Film Festival, flanked by four friends. When night fell, neither Majestic nor Martinez: the troupe was staying at his grandparents' house in Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes). "The first day, having been able to collect our accreditations but not having been able to get tickets for the evening screening of the Official Selection, we watched, lost among the hundreds of onlookers gathered at the foot of the Palais' grand staircase, these magnificent beings, in glossy paper, who climbed the red-carpeted steps," describes Santiago Amigorena , a high school friend and member of this 1985 Cannes escapade, in Le Festival de Cannes ou Le Temps perdu, a story just published by POL

Since then, Cédric Klapisch, 63, has seen dozens of films at Cannes and, like a merry reveler, sailed from cocktail party to party. But it wasn't until mid-April that he learned what, despite a resume featuring personal style, public success, and five-star casting, had never happened: his selection at the Festival. "I have to admit that I wasn't part of the club," the filmmaker said after a day spent perfecting the color grading of The Coming of the Future, which earned him an out-of-competition screening. "Perhaps because at Cannes, the other directors are more serious than I, who have kept one foot in my childhood... In any case, I don't feel bitter about it."

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