Marina Foïs is a cinema fan and she is proud to claim it. Whether in As bestassurprise success of 2022, in The Year of the Shark or in This summer ofEric Lartigau in theaters this Wednesday, the actress declares her love for the 7th art as an actress but also as a spectator.
“The cinema experienced a crisis due to a closure for several weeks, she explains to 20 minutes. But I have no doubt that the room will continue to exist. » Her role as a mother in the process of separation in This summer could well convince the public to return to the big screen.
A French audience at the top
“I really go to the cinema a lot, specifies the actress and each time, the rooms are full. The competition from platforms does not scare him. “Just because you have a microwave doesn’t mean you don’t use your ‘traditional’ oven anymore,” she insists. I also watch films on platforms, especially on the Cinetek, ideal for a cinephile like me. This platform actually makes it possible to discover heritage films recommended by big names in international cinema.
Marina Foïs also wants to be very optimistic with regard to French spectators, whose curiosity seems obvious to her, in particular thanks to the triumph of comedy. The Innocent by Louis Garrel. “It’s a hybrid film, a director’s film that no algorithm could have created,” she says. French viewers are hyper-cinéphiles and independent. And too bad if certain works do not find their audience! “There may be mistakes, insists Marina Foïs, but we must continue to protect the authors. What she does by appearing between Chiara Mastroianni and Gaël Garcia Bernal in the sensitive This summer.