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. 4. ______

Internationalism 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 entries for prizes was reflected more commercial 7. ______

interests and the festival soon acquired

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.

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