The Cannes Festival will not take place!
Although they have made the suspense last to the end, they want to challenge the coronavirus: the organizers have indeed given up organizing the Cannes Festival.
Very expected since the arrival of Coronavirus, the news of cancellation of the Cannes 2020 Festival Thursday 19 March in a press release, imposed by the health crisis of the World coronavirus.
"The Cannes Film Festival will not be able to take place on the scheduled dates, from May 12 to 23,", says the organisation team, not without hoping to hold the traditional Cannois event at another time. "Several hypotheses are being studied in order to preserve its progress, the main one being a simple postponement. » But we cannot say when as May 68 (photo)
Of the whole history of the Cannes festival, which is expected to celebrate its 73rd edition this year, only two events had forced the organizers to cancel it, or to interrupt it. In 1939, first, when World War II broke out and interrupted in 1968 by the events of May.
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