Social demonstrations are planned. The opening will be with a film Johnny Depp as King Louis XV.

Prices skyrocket.. Today, Monday, little by little the thermal sensation of the Cannes Film Festival begins to rise, although there is one day left before it opens. Journalists and movie buyers are starting to arrive, restaurants are filling up, and there are more people with their badges hanging around their necks than older people wandering around. Because Cannes in France is a kind of Miami in the United States: many Parisians decide, when they retire, to move to this city on the Côte d'Azur.