the cream of cinema in Angers

Sandrine Kiberlain, Julie Gayet, Samir Guesmi… They will all be in Angers from January 21 to 29 for the the 35th edition of the Premiers Plans Festival. While spectators shunned the dark rooms less in 2022, the event should start under the best auspices this year, according to Claude-Eric Poiroux, Festival Director : “We are rather optimistic about the return of the public to the theater. Today, we are on the usual duration of the festival, which is rather attractive. And we also know that the public wants this type of meeting. »

Tribute, previews and discoveries

This year again, the program during these eight days of celebration is very rich: 90 films selected in seven categoriesa tribute to the legendary Jeanne Moreauxor the previews of the new film by Francois Ozon, My crimeand the new musical by Noemie Lvovsky : The Great Magic.

“We want to talk about cinema that is renewing itself, with first films, and that’s important”assures the director, who is also the operator of the Angevin cinema The 400 Blowsadding want “that the cinema is at the center of cultural life in Angers. »

The seventh art “was never made for elites”continues Claude-Eric Poiroux, recalling that the event brought together up to 80,000 spectators in previous editions. “The cinema is not closed for anyone, these are completely free and not very expensive access conditions, which mean that we share films that we perhaps did not intend, the habit or plan to see. And that’s what makes you want to come back to the festival every year.”concludes the director.