Charles Tesson, film critic: “What I like about a film is feeling the necessity that brought it into being”
18 July, 2023
In the world of debates about cinema and the moving image, Charles Tesson (b. 1954) is a landmark figure. He is part of the '80s generation, those film critics who thrived under the tutelage of Serge Daney and who have taken us, until the emergence of TikTok, on a journey into an increasingly complex audiovisual world. He started, of course, at the influential French film magazine “Cahiers du cinéma”, where he served as its editor from 1998 to 2003. There he cultivated his interest in remote cinemas and sports telecasts. From 2012 to 2021, he was the artistic director of Critic's Week at the Cannes Film Festival.
Film critic and journalist; writes regularly for Dilema Veche and Scena9. He studied film theory in Grenoble, Paris, Dublin.
