The 1st Cannes Film Festival was held from September 20 to October 5. 1946. In this documentary, British actress Charlotte Rampling recounts the eventful beginnings of the film festival. In addition, Frédéric Chaudier and Frédéric Zamochnikoff have compiled unpublished contemporary documents from the family archive of Jean Zay, original footage from various eras of the festival, which is now considered the most important and fascinating film festival in the world.
For the younger generations, there is not much more, as this cataclysmic pandemic disease revealed at the end of the seventies, has decimated nearly 30 million people in just thirty years. An oversight? No. A habit. The bad habit of living with it, of believing that treatments that still do not save, make this threat harmless. It is time to rekindle the memories.
