affiche 1968
Mai’68 to Festival’68
On May 10th, 1968 the 21st Festival de Cannes opens its doors. While France demonstrates and the universities close, students invade the Festival from the 13th of May. ..
affiche 1968
On May 10th, 1968 the 21st Festival de Cannes opens its doors. While France demonstrates and the universities close, students invade the Festival from the 13th of May. Meetings are organized against the decision by Malraux to expel Henri Langlois from his position as Director of the Cinémathèque. On the 18th, just before the screening of Peppermint Frappé by Carlos Saura, several New Wave filmmakers, lead by François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, hang from the cinema curtain in a show of solidarity for the social movements across the country.
The Festival is brought to a halt. The Jury, presided over by André Chamson, will never compose a winner’s list.
Forty years later, as part of the Cannes Classics line-up, Cannes will revisit this chapter by projecting a selection of the films that were never screened, such as Peppermint Frappé, with Carlos Saura in attendance, which will open the tribute, followed by 24 Hours of a Woman’s Life by Dominique Delouche, The Long Day’s Dying by Peter Collinson, Je t’aime, je t’aime by Alain Resnais, Anna Karenina by Alexandre Zarkhi, as well as 13 Days in France by Claude Lelouch.
Peppermint Frappé by Carlos Saura
© Christophe L
