Dear Inrocks,

We are the editors of Cahiers du cinéma.

When Le Monde decided to sell les Cahiers, we took the opportunity to
develop a project with the editor-in-chief for the purchase of the
magazine. That project, born of the desire and the need for critical
thinking about cinema, has convinced financial partners, our main
shareholder being Thierry Wilhelm - press and internet editor - along
with, among others, Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens, a publisher who has
always been close to the magazine.

Our project is also that of a huge number of old members of Les
Cahiers, like Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Jean Narboni, André S.
Labarthe, Jean-Louis Comolli, Louis Skorecki, Luc Moullet…, and
longtime companions like Jacques Rancière and Jean Louis Schefer.
They, more than twenty-five in total, have indicated their commitment
by signing a letter we published in Liberation.

This project was initiated several months ago. It has constructed
itself in plain view of everyone, and its aims are now well-known:
renewing the Cahiers in depth by developing a new complementarity
between the magazine and the internet; ensuring the sustainability of
the structure in all its activities; guaranteeing continued
employment for the salaried staff.

All of this you know. Or rather, no, you pretend not to know it when
you maintain your proposal to take over an inside project, announcing
among other things further layoffs.

Is it possible that these Inrocks are the same news magazine that
displays a leftwing sensibility? Is it possible that you wish to take
over a magazine, at this historical moment, that has the will and
means to ensure its own future?

We don't believe it. There must be a mistake.

Therefore, do not delay in letting people know it's not true: Les
Inrocks don't want to buy Les Cahiers. They are too attached to the
plurality of the press and to lively critic debate for that.

Sincerely,


Pierre Alferi, Hervé Aubron, Christophe Beney, Nicole Brenez, Jean
Douchet, Laurence Giavarini, Charlotte Garson, Gilles Grand, Bill
Krohn, Ludovic Lamant, Elisabeth Lequeret, Arnaud Macé, Philippe
Mangeot, Thierry Méranger, Cyril Neyrat, Eugenio Renzi, Antoine
Thirion, Axel Zeppenfeld.