More than 600 cinema figures have said the growing influence of the far right on French cinema production risks turning into a “fascist takeover of the collective imagination”. In an open letter published in the newspaper Libération to coincide with the opening of the Cannes film festival , they said the billionaire Vincent Bolloré ’s dominant position in French film production and distribution threatened the independence of the industry. The actor-director Juliette Binoche , the director and photographer Raymond Depardon and the French-Iranian film-maker Sepideh Farsi were among those who wrote: “By leaving French cinema in the hands of a far-right owner, we risk not only the standardisation of films, but a fascist takeover of the collective imagination.” Juliette Binoche was among the 600 signatories of the open letter to the newspaper Libération.…