The Cannes Film Festival, Episode 110
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2016
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The Cannes Film Festival draws big names and big crowds, but on the day of its birth it seemed to be heading towards failure. On the occasion of the 69th International Film Festival opened in Cannes on Wed, May 5th 2016, we look back at this annual ritual starting with its humble first iteration and discuss some of the movies that were celebrated over the years.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's join us in France, a tiny bit of history on the Cannes Film Festival taking place right now, mid-May 2016 in France. Yes. the This is in France episode 110. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello I'm Annie. This is 10. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello, I'm Annie, and join us in France is a show about all things French. |
| 0:48.0 | I love France, I was born and raised in France. |
| 0:51.0 | I live in France, but I've also lived in the UK and the US for a couple of decades |
| 0:56.2 | so I do have a unique perspective on my own country and I want to help you understand |
| 1:01.6 | France better at least the way I see friends. Thank you so |
| 1:06.2 | much for all the people that have reached out to me to offer to do trip reports. |
| 1:11.4 | I love those. There will be many more coming and I'll be |
| 1:14.1 | recording more shortly. This episode is of interest to you. Remember to go on the |
| 1:20.6 | website join us in France.com and search for the word like keywords like |
| 1:24.9 | Provence or can or keywords like that and the search bar is your friend you will find a ton of things that are not right on |
| 1:35.3 | the front page for show notes and photos on this episode go to join us in |
| 1:40.3 | France.com forwardcom and the number 110. |
| 1:46.2 | The 69th international film festival in Cannes |
| 1:51.0 | opened in Cannes on Wednesday, May 5th, 2016. And so today I want to give you a quick little |
| 1:59.1 | bit of historical perspective on this great event. Now if you have been listening to the show for a while |
| 2:05.4 | you know that I'm not much of a socialite I don't work in the film industry but |
| 2:09.8 | can is a huge event and its history is actually very interesting. But you may think that |
| 2:16.8 | yeah, yeah can is big but America has the Oscars and that's what counts and yes the Oscars are huge but they are an award ceremony not a film festival there's a difference |
| 2:28.9 | Can is a film festival the biggest film festival in the world at this time. The biggest film festival in America is the Sundance |
| 2:39.0 | Film Festival that Robert Redford started at his home resort of Sundance in Utah. I love Sundance. I've been there many times. It's amazing. |
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