It will not take place this year, in any case "in its initial form". The possibility of a Cannes Festival organized this summer did not resist Emmanuel Macron's decision to extend the ban on major public events until mid-July.
“We have taken note that the postponement envisaged for the 73rd edition of the International Film Festival until the end of June at the beginning of July is no longer possible on this date. It now seems difficult to think that the Cannes Film Festival can be organized this year in its initial form, "the organizers wrote in a statement on Tuesday evening.
"Support the cinema year"
They do not renounce, on the other hand, to other "forms that this Cannes 2020 could take", "by making the films [selected] exist in one way or another", they specify, indicating to hope "to be able to communicate quickly "about it.
“We have started numerous consultations in the professional world in France and abroad. They agree on the fact that the Cannes Film Festival, which is an essential instrument for supporting the cinematographic industry, must continue to study all of the possibilities allowing to accompany the cinema year, ”they write.
Could the 2020 festival, of which Spike Lee was to be president, be reduced to an online meeting? Thierry Frémaux swept the idea aside in an interview with Variety. "For Cannes, its soul, its history, its impact is a model that could not work," explained the general delegate.
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