Cannes Film Festival, the most prestigious motion picture festival in the world, held each May in __1. the resort city of Cannes, in southeast France.
The Cannes Film Festival was conceived at the end of? 1938 as a reaction of reports that the Venice Film __2.
Festival became a platform for fascist propaganda. __3.
Due to World War II (1939?1945) however, the first? Cannes Film Festival was not held till 1946. Interna? __4.?
tionalism and postwar optimism characterized the first? festival, although organizers placed less emphasis on__5.?
competition as on mutual creative stimulation between __6.??
national productions. In later years the selection, by? juries, of entrires for prizes was reflected more commercial __7.??
interests and the festival soon acquried
its current reputation as a fashionable professional event,? more concerning with advancing the film industry than __8.
the art of film . French director Francois Truffaut addressed these issues in 1956 which he exposed the __9.
festival’s political intrigues and promotional deals,? and predicted its commercial demise. The festival? survived, however and in 1959, Truffaut himself was? awarded the prize for best screenplay for ?Les Quatre? Cents Coups (The Four Hundred Blows,? 1959). ?
In spite its ever?present financial interests and political __10. ?
overtones, the Cannes Film Festival remains an essential? showcase for international cinema.
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