"Over the decades, Cannes has mutated into an ever-hungrier mammoth, needing more space, and more venues, as it attracts an increasing number of journalists and professionals. A purpose-built Palais des Festivals had to be erected in the 1980s. The bunker, as we have come to call it, is not exactly beautiful but brutally efficient at managing Cannes' mind-boggling crowds. This year, about 40,000 accredited festival-goers are descending on the French Riviera from 140 different countries, with dozens of films selected across all sidebars."
Cannes Film Festival delivers intense adrenaline, fatigue, elation, emotion, hunger, anger, magic, and ridicule. It is widely seen as the cinema mecca for young cinephiles and film industry workers, drawing participants for decades despite complaints that it has become a circus. Cannes was conceived to counter Benito Mussolini’s Venice festival, after Venice’s Coppa Mussolini was awarded to Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda film Olympia and French, British, and American delegates walked out. Cannes later evolved into a larger, more space-hungry event, requiring a purpose-built Palais des Festivals in the 1980s. About 40,000 accredited attendees from 140 countries attend, while the Marche du Film runs alongside it with about 16,000 participants and thousands of films and projects for sale.
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