Sylvie Mallet's editorial

"A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake"

Listen up! The master of suspense starts talking about sweets. The benevolent shadow of Mr Hitchcock is floating over our town as last year’s Grand Prize winner comes out on our screens. Although London to Brighton is far from being a piece of cake, its French release makes our main goals concrete: putting British cinema in the limelight, and introducing young filmmakers and directorial debuts.

Whereas last year’s British cameras had chosen to pan across our world, they now seem to close up on individuals and families, and focus on their little troubles, their great pains, their joys and sorrows. What? Would British films be turning French? Copying our national narcissism and our very own way to split hairs? Of course not…

It just so happens that, within European cinema, French and British film industries are the most productive, the most surprising, and the most focused on their respective social issues. Thus providing us movie-enthusiasts with the bliss of exploring such different “slices of life”…

Here is an 18th British film festival,
18, the age of maturity,
the age of boldness…
So welcome to you all
British friends and fellow movie-goers,

Welcome to Dinard, your home away from home, and that of Mr Hitchcock.

Sylvie Mallet, Présidente du Festival

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