« It’s an odd place where to show films which are not sure of a theatre release to people who are not sure to go and see them, but the oddest of this thing, with Cannes, is the result of all this effervescence: to give the desire to see films, the desire to make films, the desire to love film. »

Gilles Jacob

« Cannes is the cinema: glamour and rigour, silly and serious, sexual and cerebral, excessive and refined, art and business, the ridiculous and the sublime. An elitism so discriminatory, and in the same time, the capacity to change, to embrace the new cinema tendencies. »

Todd McCarthy

From 14th to 25th May, the whole world will be focus on the 61st Cannes Film Festival. Ten days of Croisette, spangles and starlets... and (of course) of films, films and still films. And the program is exciting ! Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Wim Wenders, Arnaud Desplechin, Philippe Garrel, Clint Eastwood, Steven Soderbergh, Atom Egoyan,... just for the Official Competition.

Thanks to Cineuropa.org, I’ve got the chance this year, to cover the Cannes Film Festival. A dream for a young graduate in cinema studies and an image impassioned. Thus, with this blog, I’ll try to share out my cinematographic sudden impulses, to describe the festival offstages and the atmosphere in Cannes,... because the goal through this blog is to give a less official vision of the Festival (the official will be on www.cineuropa.org), about my discovery and my impressions of this first experience in Cannes. The impatience and the exciting gain me slowly by slowly...

Aurélie Guelff (25 years old, Belgian)