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Cannes Film Festival, the most prestigious motion picture festival in the world,

held each May in __1. the resort city of Cannes, in southeast France.

The Cannes Film Festival was conceived at the end of

1938 as a reaction of reports that the Venice Film __2.

Festival became a platform for fascist propaganda. __3.

Due to World War II (19391945) however, the first

Cannes Film Festival was not held till 1946. Interna __4.

tionalism and postwar optimism characterized the first

festival, although organizers placed less emphasis on__5.

competition as on mutual creative stimulation between __6.

national productions. In later years the selection, by

juries, of entrires for prizes was reflected more commercial __7.

interests and the festival soon acquried

its current reputation as a fashionable professional event,

more concerning with advancing the film industry than __8.

the art of film . French director Francois

Truffaut addressed these issues in 1956 which he exposed the __9.

festival’s political intrigues and promotional deals,

and predicted its commercial demise. The festival

survived, however and in 1959, Truffaut himself was

awarded the prize for best screenplay for Les Quatre

Cents Coups (The Four Hundred Blows, 1959). 

In spite its everpresent financial interests and political __10. 

overtones, the Cannes Film Festival remains an essential

showcase for international cinema.