From December 5 to 11, after “Cinema and Gastronomy” and “Cinema to the Rescue of the Planet,” this annual cinema event in Cannes and on the French Riviera will have comedy as its theme this year.
A great number of guests (directors, actors, screenwriters) will be present to showcase their films and engage with their audiences:
Karim Adda (actor, director), Armelle (actress), Christophe Alévêque (comedian and actor), Clovis Cornillac (actor), Bernard Farcy (actor), Frédéric Gorny (actor), Philippe Harel (actor, director, screenwriter), Atmen Kelif (actor), Claude Lelouch (director), Jalil Lespert (actor, director, screenwriter), Mathias Mlekuz (actor), Valérie Mairesse (actress), Claude Pinoteau (director), Daniel Prévost (actor), Pascal Rabaté (director and comic book author), Pierre Richard (director, actor), Serena Reinaldi (actress), Christophe Ruggia (director and screenwriter), Marc Jolivet (subject to confirmation).
On the program:
A thematic retrospective on “Cinema Does Comedy”
A competition of 8 pre-premiere films awarded at other festivals (Panorama of Festivals)
Workshops for high school and college students (about 350 registered this year)
Screenings hosted and led by professionals
Special evenings (including the latest show by Pierre Richard: Postal Franchise)
Presentation evening for the 24th Meetings
Thursday, December 1 at 6:30 PM at La Licorne. This presentation will be followed at 8:30 PM by the screening of Pierre Rambaldi’s film “Les Tribulations d’une caissière” (pre-premiere).
Special Evening
Tuesday, December 6, 2011, at 8:30 PM at Théâtre Croisette
“POSTAL FRANCHISE”
a show by and with PIERRE RICHARD
unique on the French Riviera!
The life of an artist is not easy. Just opening the mailbox in the morning is already an adventure. Dozens of letters come from all over the country, ranging from the most touching declarations to the most whimsical. From about fifteen hilarious letters representing the whole, written by his friend Christophe Duthuron, Pierre Richard decided to respond to these inimitable letters, in his equally inimitable way.
Pierre Richard shares along the way a multitude of delightful anecdotes, whether about his May 1968, shaped by courage fleeing, a very New Wave filming, or encounters with Jean Carmet, Georges Brassens, or Jerry Lewis.
