Citizen Cannes

The Man Behind the Cannes Film Festival


A charming autobiography from the president of the Cannes Film Festival.


Gilles Jacob


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Overview
  • Steps behind the scenes at the Cannes Film Festival
  • The autobiography of the mastermind behind the world’s most prestigious film festival
  • A great raconteur, Gilles Jacob regales us with stories and encounters with Sharon Stone, Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood and many others
  • This is a must-read for film buffs, and for anyone fascinated by larger-than-life personalities


 

About the author(s)
Gilles Jacob was born in Paris in 1930. Renowned film critic and enthusiast, he was elected general delegate in 1978, and President of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in 2000. He has also written for Les Nouvelles littéraires, L’Express and Le Masque et la plume. He is the author of the essay Le Cinéma moderne (1964), the novel Un jour, une mouette (1964), the anthology Les Visiteurs de Cannes (1992), and the collection of his photographs in Livre d’Or (2010).


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