HASDoes it really take place? The very first time that THE World writing “Cannes festival”, On April 22, 1946, under the pen of Jean Néry, the birth of the event is not yet assured. In one of his chronicles, the journalist and future president of the French association of film and television criticism is moved to attend the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of cinema in … Prague. “The French, minister in mind, were only guests there,” he writes, regretting that neither Paris nor the Côte d’Azur, where the founding father of 7 retirede Art Louis Lumière, did not take the initiative of such a celebration.
Severe, the journalist deplores “The intrigues that are already formed around a project to create a new cinematographic center on the Mediterranean coast” And the idea, buried in 1939, of an international cinema festival which would take place each year in Cannes. “From the release, the idea was resumed. The project, this time, took an increased interest due to the disappearance of the Biennale de Venice, dead, it seemed, with fascism ”, Recalls the daily, which announces that the scheduled date of the first edition of this festival, in September 1946, is compromised: “Cannes is looking for … six million. Do not the prestige of France and its most immediate interest deserve to devote the hundred thousandth part of its budget to it? (…) HAS Failure of what, we expose ourselves to other Pragues and new Venice. »»
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