How to access the Cannes Festival without accreditation?

The question, which stirs the tourists of La Croisette each month of May, will make all the more sense this year as the Cannes Film Festival blows 70 candles. The Festival is reserved for professionals, and you must be accredited because festivalgoers « work »... But you can also enjoy the festive atmosphere in the streets of Cannes. And with a little luck riding the famous steps!

If Nicole Kidman will make its Gala dinner with soul, (the new trend ephemeral place of the FIF opened by Cartel agency) the other VIPs will be entitled to their batch of gala evenings, as the evening of the Jewellery of Grisogono the 23 mai in L-eden Roc, The Top Models on the L-OREAL Terrace in Martinez where Chopard with Rihanna...what about others?

The Town Hall of Cannes imagined a program to animate this anniversary edition, from 17 to 28 May. A few days from the event, the Cannes blog Make the point.

HOW TO WATCH MARKETS AND SEE FILMS IN OFFICIAL COMPETITION?

After the introduction take advantage of the Cannes festival, the subject that concerns every neophyte Cannois:

Will I be able to enter the room where the films are screened in competition?

Yes. But, it is therefore necessary to temporarily ravage any ill-positioned pride and make nice smiles. Several techniques exist: you will meet people rather direct who wander around the entrance by susurrising « Seek invitation ». Most researchers use instead a sign, a cardboard, a notebook, or a magic slate on which they simply enter the name of the film they want to see. This may seem incredible, but it works almost always.

The Great Light Theatre

The films in competition are presented at the Grand Théâtre Lumière, a huge room of 230o seats, composed of an orchestra, and a basket ensemble, balcony, vertical like a cliff. The armchairs are very comfortable, with armrests, and the projection conditions, even when located on the sides or at the top, are optimal for both image and sound. The screen is 19 meters wide by 8 meters high. Each film is shown on a single day. Once, or more often two or three times in the day.

How to access the official and legal projection.

badge holders (priority, press or professional) cannot enter the Grand Théâtre Lumière. If you're a professional, you have to have an invitation. A professional can be accompanied by a guest without a badge if the latter has an invitation. The challenge will therefore be to obtain one of these valuable
sesame.

Invitations to film screening

The most common invitations have a salmon colour. These invitations are in the possession of professional festivalgoers (Badge Festivalier) who may have a limited number. If it is NOT used, it loses a lot of points. The purpose of this system is to ensure that the LWG is always full, but that the number of invitations in circulation is not too much higher than the room gauge.

You have understood that a festivalist who would have an invitation in his pocket, asked for a friend for example, and who could not attend the session, is almost under an obligation to find someone to give it to.

Once you have this type of invitation in your pocket, you still have one last pitfall to overcome, since with a salmon-coloured invitation you cannot enter alone, you must enter with a professional (which is relatively simple because a badge is valid for two people).

There are also blue invitations, very rare (Productions) Since they exempt you from having to find a charitable soul that will bring you in, you can simply introduce yourself and enter, even without a badge. It is rare to see them, but often they arise in the hands of their holder in a package of 5 or 10, since it must be issued to partners, from institutions, who may be subject to significant withdrawals. Here's our news for the cinemaphiles are impatient and want to feel the electronic orgasm of the Marches, on the world's famous Red Carpet. Good luck, but you have to live it once in your life!

WHAT YOU ARE AT THE 70th CANNES FESTIVAL

EXPO: CANNES MAKES THE MURDAY 70 YEARS!

A true retrospective for this anniversary edition, the traditional exhibition Cannes makes the wall will trace 70 years of love history between the city and the cinema.

The exhibition « Cannes makes the wall » To see the stars in close-up!

Instants of those who made history of the Seventh Art during their passages on the French Riviera. Magnificent paintings and graffiti of the films of Tarantino are painted to brighten the walls near the station SNCF.

Ten air tarpaulins will be installed along the street d-Antibes with the most beautiful pictures of the previous Festivals and eight other giant impressions will be placed on walls throughout the city.

STAR WARS SILHOUTTES, JACK SPARROW, ZORRO, SHRECK

Visitors to the Film Festival will find news « silhouettes » (to take a picture in the skin of a particular character) which will be installed in different places of passage: the universes of Zorro, Star Wars, Titanic, Caribbean Pirates, James Bond, Batman or Shrek.

CINEMA MEETINGS IN THE QUARTERS AND ON THE PLAGE

In addition to the Cinema de la Plage, which also provides a stage for musical shows this year, other projos with the beautiful star are planned. Three free sessions of « positive cinema » will be proposed in three quarters of Cannes. Outdoors and organized by the Foundation Positive Planet by Jacques Attali.

The President's men will be presented Saturday, 20 May at the Mont Chevalier School, in the Suquet. The Sunday 21, it is Mr Smith at the Senate who will be projected on the market place of the Bocca. And finally, the Monday 22, place in Blade Runner in the parking Berthelot.

ELECTION MISS & MISTER CANNES THE 18 WHEN THE LAFAYETTE GALERIES ARE INCLUDED

They will reign over this anniversary edition and ride the steps with their scarf. A Miss and Mister Festival of Cannes will be elected on Thursday, 18 May, in partnership with Galeries Lafayette.

The casting, open to all, is organised by the local model agency Enjoy models.