Cannes Kicks Off Three-Day 'Special Festival' Under Strict COVID-19 Rules

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After coronavirus forced the world's leading film festival to cancel its official edition in May, Cannes this week launched a mini-version, with four films

another Franco-comedy, which will close Special Cannes on Thursday evening.

With COVID-19 numbers rising sharply in France —the country has logged a record 52,010 new coronavirus infections overnight Monday—it looked like this mini-Cannes could be shut down before it even began. France has already extended its 9 p.m. curfew—a measure designed to reduce the virus' spread—to most of its cities, affecting 46 million of the country’s 66 million citizens.

Where Cannes has loosened up a bit, is the dress code. It's black-tie of course —classic Cannes —but it isn't being enforced. A French man ahead of me, in jeans and a sports jacket, strolls right past security. You wouldn't get away with that at the"real" Cannes Film Festival. So Frémaux, Lescure, and Lisnard are hyping up their mini-festival, which will even have a mini-awards ceremony and a mini-Palme d'Or, in the form of a best short film honor.

 

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