On the night of May 10 to May 11, violent clashes between students and the police took place in the Latin Quarter in what became the first night of the barricades. … On May 17, in Paris the tats gnraux du cinma, a general assembly of cinema professionals, called for the Cannes Festival to be stopped.
Why was Truffaut banned from Cannes?
In 1958, Truffaut got himself banned from Cannes, after denouncing the festival as a clapped-out institution. A year later, he triumphed there with his first, quasi-autobiographical feature The 400 Blows one of the great films about adolescence.
What event disrupted the opening of the film festival in 1938?
In 1938, French diplomat Philippe Erlanger, film critic Ren Jeanne and Minister of National Education and Fine Arts Jean Zay were disturbed by that year’s Venice Film Festival, when pro-fascist films from Germany and Italy Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia and Goffredo Alessandrini’s Luciano Serra, Pilot jointly won …
