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Hôtel de la Plage
Place du Suquet
7 rue Saint-Dizier
Jacques Tati, our favourite Uncle, walks out of the hotel where Monsieur Hulot was on holiday. He may be off to see Jour de fête at the local cinema…
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Charlie Chaplin
10 boulevard Vallombrosa Charlie, the Tramp, the eternal vagabond in the Kid. The tender gaze of two children, one big and one small, captured on the celluloid of our memories. Black and white - the colour of the heart…
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Trompe l’œil Le Barbarella
Place du Suquet
16 rue Saint-Dizier Cinema is an illusion, like this façade. Nothing of what you think you see actually exists: no balconies or windows, no room with a view. The magic of cinema may sometimes be on our own doorstep.
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L’envers du décor 7 rue des Suisses What about behind the camera? What is concealed from us to preserve the magic of cinema? A tribute to those men and women in the shadows who dedicate their lives to keeping us entertained, to taking us on a journey through their imagination, from the simple technician to the director, they work as one away from the camera’s gaze. Silence, we’re shooting…
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Buster Keaton 29 boulevard Victor Tuby
(angle 9 rue des Frères) Buster Keaton, the stone-faced comic, impassively shoots The Cameraman while triggering catastrophes timed down to the split-second. The first genius of visual gags he was poetry in motion, transforming the most commonplace objects into sources of hilarity.
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Le 7e Art
Place du 18 juin (pont Carnot) Like Eddy Mitchell, everyone knows the fate of neighbourhood cinemas: they end up as garages, housing blocks or supermarkets; but in Cannes, there’ll be no last showing! This mural, known as the ‘7th Art’, represents the sixteen cinemas that await you in Cannes and where you can enjoy the latest in cinematographic artistry.
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Marilyn Monroe 16 boulevard d’Alsace The eternal goddess of cinema, Marilyn Monroe, is resplendent in all her timeless beauty, ready to climb the steps of the Festival Hall to the paradise of the stars. Cannes didn’t need a Seven-Year Itch to reserve a special place for a tribute to her on its walls.
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Harold Lloyd
9 rue Louis Braille
Maison des associations Harold Lloyd, one of silent film’s greatest comics, who performed all his stunts himself, tried to stop time. Although he probably didn’t succeed, posterity has given him what he may have been seeking: immortality in the minds of all those in whom he inspired laughter for decades.
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Gérard Philipe
3 boulevard Victor Tuby Mischievous and radiant, here we see Gérard Philipe at the height of his glory (which was brutally interrupted at the age of 37) in Christian-Jacque’s Fanfan la Tulipe in 1952. Born in Cannes, Gérard Philipe has continued to be one of the most popular French actors thanks to his commitment to humanist causes and the memory of his immense talent on stage and on the silver screen.
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