By dint of repeating that everything would go as planned, the management of the Cannes festival ended up looking like the Titanic orchestra. While the coronavirus crisis led to cascading cancellations and postponements, she still believed that the cinema world would put on tuxedos and evening dresses on May 12. With the Tokyo Olympic Games, organized in August, it was one of the last globalized events to resist.
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Thursday evening, by a press release, the festival recognized the limits of the Coué method: “Today, we have made the following decision: the Cannes Film Festival cannot be held on the dates scheduled, from May 12 to 23. Several hypotheses are being studied in order to preserve their progress, the main one of which would be a simple postponement, in Cannes, at the end of June - beginning of July 2020. "
The festival does not speak of dry cancellation, a scenario envisaged in recent days with the establishment of a Digital Film Market. This solution
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