THE Cannes Film Festival, the world’s most important celebration of cinema, is approaching a landmark. The edition that is set to unfold on the French Riviera from May 17 to 28 this year is the festival’s 75th.
It isn’t, however, numbers that cineastes are focused on. The fact that Cannes is returning to near-normalcy after two years of uncertainty and that the quality of the line-up that festival director Thierry Fremaux has assembled is beyond any ifs and buts promise to be the biggest talking points during the 11-day event. . .