Thierry Frémaux on Why ‘Today, We Can Never Trust Images We See’ — but We Can Trust the Lumière Brothers and ‘Apocalypse Now’

Thierry Frémaux on Why ‘Today, We Can Never Trust Images We See’ — but We Can Trust the Lumière Brothers and ‘Apocalypse Now’

Ahead of Cannes, the festival director and Institut Lumière head unveils his second anthology of restored films by Louis and Auguste Lumière, with his own wry commentary about the brothers who invented the very first movie camera. Has much changed since then?

Cannes head Thierry Frémaux looks back on a century of Lumière films and forward to the festival’s 79th edition

The festival's longtime artistic director and head of the Institut Lumière directed a new documentary about the pioneering French filmmakers.