It is one o’clock in the morning and in Rue d’Antibes, the street that runs parallel to the Croisette, a bit like Fifth Avenue in New York, but in a petit version, due to the accumulation of designer clothing stores, there it’s as many people as 8 in the morning. Something is changed Cannes.
It is clear that this year practically recover the number of participants in the Festivalbetween journalists, buyers and distributors.
Parallel to the Festival, runs the Film Market or Marché du Film, which is what moves millions and millions of euros, not only when it comes to buying films (or projects), but also in terms of hotel rooms, restaurants, bars and how. they can imagine.
A feat for the city
It is estimated that, year after year, the Cannes Film Festival leaves the inhabitants of the city (the name, in French, is cannois) in normal times and outside the pandemic, out and about 200 million eurosin every concept.
And it’s not like there are many people on the street, because the weekend is approaching. This first weekend is usually the busiest, because the regulars are joined by tourists, who arrive by plane to Nice and then by taxi to Cannes, by train or on luxury yachts or cruise ships, which drop anchor in the Mediterranean.
Tourists don’t come to the beaches, which are short and there are almost no waves. Entering the green sea here is like seeing your feet surrounded by little fish.
But not everything is cinema in Cannes. The security officer who scanned my card to enter the Palais on Wednesday night was more interested in seeing Manchester City beat Real Madrid 2-0 in the Champions League semi-final. He didn’t take his eyes off his cell phone screen, and he only did it when I asked him “How’s the game going?”, And he offered me to watch it.
more events
We said that something has changed in Cannes. Both in the city and in regards to the cinema. For example, the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, another of the Cannes events, which has its own hall (the theater on the Croisette, where the Festival once worked, until it became so large that it built the Palais des Festivals, which now houses it) . it’s not called that anymore.
Adapted to current times, it has been renamed the Filmmakers’ Fortnight, due to a gender issue. In French, the term filmmaker covers everyone: but there are directors and directors. There, the opening was with the film The Goldmann case, by Cédric Kahn, about a French left-wing criminal accused of killing two pharmacists, which he denies. It is based on a true event.
But that’s another story.
Source: Clarin
