Tag Archives: Cannes Film Festival

Gearing up for Cannes’ 75th

Posted on 21 May, 2022 by candawalley

There is something very curious about film festivals. At their heart is the insubstantial and temporary illusion provided by a film yet that is surrounded by a ponderous weight of solidity. This paradox was clearly evident on Sunday in Cannes, … Continue reading →

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Feathers and festivals

Posted on 14 May, 2022 by candawalley

The other week we headed over to the edge of the Camargue to visit the team at Mas Mireille, the rented terraced house that is the base for the science team of A Rocha France in the Vallée des Baux. … Continue reading →

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Cannes film festival (again)

Posted on 17 July, 2021 by candawalley

One displaced seasonal event this year has been – as we mentioned last week – the Cannes Film Festival. It would take free film tickets and a slap-up buffet to persuade us to drive to Cannes specifically for it, but … Continue reading →

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Sun and Stars in Cannes

Posted on 1 June, 2019 by candawalley

Last week we posted some photos of the Cannes film festival in the rain. However the sun came out and apparently the films improved. We don’t usually visit Cannes during the festival apart from Sunday, but this year we had … Continue reading →

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A Sunday of contrasts

Posted on 25 May, 2019 by candawalley

One of the fascinating things about living where we do is a sense of being involved in two worlds: slow-moving, traditional, rural France and the frantic, glamorous twenty-first century urban world of the Cote d’Azur. That contrast was very much … Continue reading →

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Avoiding Cannes Film Festival

Posted on 19 May, 2018 by candawalley

At the end of two weeks in which the phrase “Cannes Festival” has not been far away from the front page of the world’s press, we have a terrible confession to make. Along with almost everybody in our church, a … Continue reading →

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The Cannes Film Festival at 70

Posted on 27 May, 2017 by candawalley

Yes, the film festival celebrates its 70th birthday this year, and as we mentioned in a previous blog, has been advertising that fact for some time. It is however in several senses a nervous 70th birthday. There is understandable and … Continue reading →

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Cannes makes preparations

Posted on 8 April, 2017 by candawalley

After a hectic and profoundly stressful three weeks involving two successive crisis visits to a frequently cloudy and chill UK we were rather hoping to come back to a sun-drenched south of France where we could relax and de-stress in … Continue reading →

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Cannes again

Posted on 28 May, 2016 by candawalley

Well, despite fears of terrorist attacks the Cannes film Festival this year passed off largely without incident other than the usual tantrums, bitchiness and pretension that is the hallmark of the film world.  It seems that the problem with the … Continue reading →

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Cannes before the chaos

Posted on 14 May, 2016 by candawalley

There has been the assumption that by now the world would be watching the glittering celebrities of cinema against the gleaming blue sea and sky of Cannes. But the best-laid plans of even the greatest go wrong, and the wet and … Continue reading →

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