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John Woo was born on September 22, 1946, in Guangzhou, China, during the Chinese Civil War, into a Christian family. They faced persecution after the communist revolution and fled to Hong Kong when he was five years old.

Anaïs in Love is a romantic comedy and the debut feature film by French director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet. The 36-year-old director’s film is about Anaïs (Anaïs Demoustier), who is having a hard time making decisions in her life.

It's 1991 and les frères Coen leave their mark on the Croisette, taking the Palme d'Or for Barton Fink (which will go on to receive a Golden Globe nomination for John Goodman, supporting actor). Cannes in the 1990s is absolutely in love with les indies américains (and Asia), and more Palmes will rain on the Sundance generation throughout the decade.

Over the past 18 years, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has donated over $1. 375 million to the non-profit organization, FilmAid.

Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning actor, producer, and director, Forest Whitaker was met with a standing ovation at the opening ceremony for the 75th Cannes Film Festival when he received an honorary Palme d’Or lifetime achievement.   He follows such luminaries as Jodie Foster, Jeanne Moreau, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Fonda, Manoel de Oliveira, and Agnes Varda.

Cannes is not different from a pilgrimage: the gods of cinema make an appearance and the faithful follow, entranced, amused, and, sometimes, irate. In its long and illustrious 75-year journey, Cannes saw stars and filmmakers of all magnitudes interacting with their worshippers and their anointed (better yet: credentialed) clergy, the press.

Cannes came back in all its glory - the Palais is open, and climbing those internationally known steps requires elegance, originality, and sass. .

Rachel House has been in the business of acting and directing for over 25 years. You may recognize the now 50-year-old New Zealander from her striking looks in roles such as Topaz in the Hollywood blockbuster Thor: Ragnarok (2017), or you may recognize her voice as Gramma Tala in the Disney animated film Moana (2016), or as Terry in the Golden Globe-winning animated feature Soul (2020).

May 22, 1965 - Bondmania hits the Croisette. Sean Connery and some would-be Bond Girls promote Thunderball in Cannes.

Director Constantin Costa-Gavras' Missing was a major hit in Cannes 1982. A family drama set against the 1973 Chilean coup d'état that ousted elected president Salvador Allende and led to the apprehension, torture, and death of hundreds of people, Missing won the Palme d'Or that year (split with the equally political Turkish film Yol ).