Marcel Hartmann There is one man at the Cannes Film Festival who is impossible to miss: Thierry Frémaux, the festival’s general delegate for the past 25 years. He’s the one introducing films at every screening, greeting filmmakers and VIPs at the top of the festival’s famous red steps that lead into the Palais theater — and riding his bike between venues. He moves through the world’s most glamorous film event with the easy energy of someone who has always cared more about the movies than the showbiz that surrounds them. Before he was called to Cannes, Frémaux trained in the martial art of judo — a sport that not only promotes physical fitness but relies on the mental discipline of its participants. He even wrote a book about how “judo shaped the man and the film lover that I am.”
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