“Cannes fait le Mur”
As part of this exhibition scheduled alongside the Cannes Film Festival since 2004, monumental posters are unfurled on the walls and canvasses are hung in the Rue d’Antibes to invite passers-by to delve into dreams and glamour. Pictures can be found all around town, providing an opportunity to discover a movie star each time you go out.
2012
In 2012, it was AFP’s turn, with support from the Atelier Image et Compagnie, to take part in the “Cannes fait le Mur” exhibition and to present a selection of photographs covering 65 years of the Cannes Film Festival.
2011
For this eighth year, “Cannes fait le Mur” paid tribute to the French photographer Marcel Hartmann. This was an opportunity to admire the famous faces of Fanny Ardant, Milla Jovovich, Jean Dujardin, Virginie Ledoyen, Tim Burton and many others on the walls of the city and on the canvasses hung in the Rue d’Antibes.
2010
Getty Images took charge of the walls of the city and the Rue d’Antibes, giving the population, visitors and festival-goers an opportunity to discover magnificent portraits of Sophie Marceau on the Town Hall and Diane Kruger on the expressway, as well as Colin Firth, Daniel Craig and the magnificent smile of Nicole Kidman.
2009
For its sixth year, the exhibition organised by the City of Cannes in partnership with the Corbis Outline agency and with support from Multiplast, focused on a multiplicity of talents: several photographers, and therefore several ways of looking at icons of world cinema with, as a common thread, a certain joie de vivre captured by the camera.
2008
In 2008, the City of Cannes, once again in a partnership with Corbis Outline, the magazine Première and Multisplast, successfully dressed up the walls of the city with the most gorgeous faces in cinema. Dreams – and elegance – just a few steps from the famous red carpet.
2007
In 2007, for the 60th Cannes Film Festival, the artist Denis Rouvre had the original idea to ask actors and actresses to take pictures of themselves with a remote control. Diane Kruger, the master of ceremonies, Morgan Freeman, Jean Dujardin, Marion Cotillard and Samuel Lee Jackson, among others, all accepted.
2006
For its 3rd year, the “Cannes fait le Mur” exhibition changed its atmosphere, but kept with magnificence and the absolute by turning its artistic outlook over to the Courbis Outline agency, with support from Télérama and Dupont.
2005
In 2005, for the 2nd year of the “Cannes fait le Mur” festival exhibition, the City of Cannes and photographer Stéphane Kossman once again worked together with the renewed support of Pentax and Marionnaud Parfumeries. This year, the walls superbly displayed John Travolta, Brad Pitt and Clint Eastwood, Penelope Cruz, Sharon Stone and Ornella Muti, and a few others.
2004
For its first appearance on the walls of Cannes in 2004, the “Cannes fait le Mur” exhibition was a surprise for the festival-goers and the local population with its elegant excesses. Photographer Stéphane Kossman displayed his works on the walls of the city in cinema format, to present the scope of such cinema giants as Monica Bellucci, Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Kidman, Pedro Almodovar, Sean Penn…
Catherine Deneuve - May 2006
