Palace of Festivals and Congresses of Cannes
Concrete festival hall on the seafront, home of the Film Festival's red-carpeted twenty-four steps.
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This guide to the Palace of Festivals and Congresses in Cannes opens on a spring night in nineteen eighty-three, when Orson Welles stepped onto the stage to announce the prize for best director. It follows two very different filmmakers, Andrei Tarkovsky and Robert Bresson, and a hall full of strong opinions. Along the way you'll hear why festival regulars mourned the old Palais Croisette, and what they called the building that replaced it. Best heard facing the red-carpeted staircase.
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