The small screen has revolutionised the way we watch films, but platforms like Netflix won’t kill the big screen, according to French film director Claire Denis, who said she will die, but cinema won't.

Denis, who became famous for her 1998 debut film, Chocolat, said she is “hopeful” about the future of film.

Ahead of the release of her latest feature-length picture, High Life starring Robert Pattinson, the French director lamented that there has always been a level of competition between new digital platforms and film.

“I think there has always been this moment where film and digital were already facing a big challenge, but then you see now that both can live together, even Super Eight films and digital,” she added.

“Now there are platforms like Netflix but since I started making movies, I've heard people say 'cinema is dead', since the sixties, and it's not dead, you know.

“I will die but cinema won’t”.