For these three unexpected days, the handpicked guests, as well as Cannes residents who love the cinema, had to endure drastic sanitary checks, disinfection airlock with facial recognition camera, temperature measurement and gantry projecting you a fine mist in the Blade Runner before finally entering the red carpet.
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On the menu of this edition which ended yesterday, four films, from Japan, Georgia and France, presented in preview.
Two do not yet have a release date and the other two are due to hit the big screen in December.
“It was inconceivable that here, in Cannes, we would abdicate the holding of a demonstration on the cinema,
specifies the mayor of the city, David Lisnard.
We didn't want a blank year for a black screen.
So we organized this special edition. ”
Cultural emergency
The mayor especially pleaded for a cultural emergency, even an emergency
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