The 76th Cannes Film Festival opened on Tuesday evening with a ceremony that brought together Catherine Deneuve and her daughter, mistress of ceremonition. Chiara Mastroianni recalled that the event was born in 1939 of an "anger": "The raison d'être of this festival was, remains, the exaltation of our freedom" Uma Thurman presented a Palme d'honneur to Michael Douglas.
And closed this ceremony with a quote from George Cukor: "Cinema is like love: when it's good it's great, when it is not good, it's not bad anyway"