Location: place du Suquet, 7 rue Saint-Dizier
acques Tati, our favourite Uncle, leaves the hotel where Monsieur Hulot spends his holidays. Perhaps he will go and see Jour de Fête at the local cinema...
Location: 10 boulevard Vallombrosa
The Tramp and the Kid, two fond childhood portraits, the big one and the little one, captured on the film roll of our memory. Black and white with the colour of our hearts...
Location: place du Suquet, 16 rue Saint-Dizier
Cinema is an illusion, so is this façade. Nothing that you think you see actually exists: no balcony, no windows, no room with a view. The magic of the 7th art is sometimes simply in our streets.
Location: 7 rue des Suisses
And behind the camera, what do they hide from us to preserve the magic of cinema? A tribute to these unsung figures who devote their lives to entertaining us and taking us along the paths of their imagination. From the simple technician to the director, everyone is in the same boat. Silence... Action!
Location: 29 boulevard Victor Tuby (angle 9 rue des Frères)
Buster Keaton, the comedian who never laughed, calmly films The Cameraman while triggering disasters timed to the second. The early genius of the visual gag was also a poet of everyday life, turning the most trivial objects into a source of humour.
Location: place du 18 juin (pont Carnot)
Like said french singer Eddy Mitchell, everyone knows the fate of a neighbourhood cinema: it will end up as a garage, a high-rise or a supermarket. But in Cannes, there is no final screening: this 7th Art symbolises the sixteen cinemas that are waiting to welcome you to Cannes, to discover all the latest in cinema.
Location: 16 boulevard d’Alsace
The immortal goddess of cinema, Marilyn Monroe, is resplendent in all her eternal beauty, ready to walk up the steps of the Palais des festivals in a celebrity-filled paradise. Cannes did not need The Seven Year Itch to incorporate her into the tributes, her place was reserved.
Location: 9 rue Louis Braille (Salle 1901)
Harold Lloyd, one of the greatest comedians of silent cinema, who did all his own stunts, tries to freeze time. He probably won't succeed, but posterity has given him what he was perhaps looking for: immortality in the minds of all those he has made laugh over the decades.
Location: 3 boulevard Victor Tuby
Gérard Philipe, mischievous and radiant, at the height of his glory, too suddenly and tragically lost at the age of 37, in Christian-Jacque's Fanfan la Tulipe in 1952. Born in Cannes, Gérard Philipe remains, after many years, one of the most popular French actors thanks to his humanitarian commitments and the memory of his immense talent in the theatre as well as in cinema.
Location: avenue Francis Tonner
Full of youth and beauty, Alain Delon steers his boat towards Plein Soleil in front of René Clément's camera. One of the stars of French cinema at the height of his exceptional career, cat-like as in his future role in Il gattopardo, with the dark stare of a Samurai...
Location: Berthelot-ex Diabolika car park, avenue Marcellin Berthelot
In the Berthelot car park, the vehicles of regulars and visitors rub shoulders with the cars of the stars of cinema who are impatient to get back on the road: Bonnie and Clyde, Mad Max, Batman, the Ghostbusters, Starsky and Hutch. And if you are looking for a taxi driver, avoid Robert de Niro...
Location: boulevard de la République
Gabin and Morgan in the Quai des brumes, with their piercing eyes, Notorious Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, Di Caprio and Kate Winslet melting the iceberg, Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind, Bogart and Bacall in To Have and Have Not, Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg in an incomparable moment of Dolce Vita... Stolen kisses in the Cinema Paradiso of our memory...
Location: place Cornut-Gentille, 2 quai Saint-Pierre
The set is assembled, the camera mounted for the prestigious credits of a hundred years of cinema: R2-D2 and Mickey Mouse, Fred Astaire twirling, Bourvil and de Funès on the prowl, Batman and Superman watching out for the bad guys, Belmondo and Depardieu chumming up...
Location: passage Pierre Sémard
It is in fact Richard Fleischer's film, produced by Disney, adapted from our own Jules Verne, which inspired the company A. Fresco to paint the mural that now decorates the tunnel. To the great joy of those who dive down with the Nautilus in the company of Kirk Douglas, James Mason's Captain Nemo, the giant octopus and other sharks.
Location: Pont Alexandre III
A film by Jane Campion (Palme d'Or 1993).
Four main characters are shown: Flora (Anna Paquin), Ada MacGrath (Holly Hunter), Alistair Stewart (Sam Neill) and Baines (Harvey Keitel).
Location: Pont Alexandre III
A film by Quentin Tarantino (Palme d’Or 1994).
Four main characters are shown: Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis), Vincent Vega (John Travolta), Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Mia (Uma Thurman).
Location: parking Migno, rue Migno (Quartier République)
A film by Jacques Demy (1967).
Two main characters are shown: Solange (Françoise Dorléac) and Delphine (Catherine Deneuve).
Location: 7 rue Jean Jaurès au niveau du marché Gambetta
Tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933-2021), one of the greatest french actors
Location: crossing of 87 boulevard de la République and rue Léon Noël
Tribute to Robert De Niro in the cult classic "Taxi Driver," Palme d'Or winner in 1976, directed by living legend Martin Scorsese.
Location: École René Goscinny, 150 avenue Michel Jourdan, Cannes La Bocca
The film Un homme et une femme directed by Claude Lelouch won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966. It is a romance that tells the love story between Anne (Anouk Aimée), a young script writer, and Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a widowed car driver.
