Does the French government really need to interfere in what films are shown in French movie theaters?

This is a good one !
As if the US Government never intervened in order to select what should be shown in French movie thearters ..
Do the Blum-Byrnes agreements ring a bell ?
The French government shaped the offer of movies in French theaters based on the pressure and in application of agreement with our American friends..

Learn your history guys. Cultural imperialism has a name.

Regarding cultural products as elements of foreign policy, one can also mention the Blum-Byrnes Accord in 1946 between a ruined France and triumphant USA : American aid was conditional to the introduction of American products in France and a whole part of the accord referred specifically to films and to US demand to play American movies in French theaters.

www.understandfrance.org . . .