Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Cannes 2021: Hope Springs Eternal as Famed Film Festival Plans for July, Not May, on the Croisette

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Hot, hot, hot.

Let’s hope heat and sunlight kill COVID because that will be the weather for this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

The famed film fest is moving from mid-May to July 6-17 on the sunny Mediterranean. That’s because COVID is rampant right now, especially in Provence and southern France.

Will this really happen? Hope springs eternal. In the summer. the Cote d’Azur is filled with tourists on vacation. Hotel rooms are scarce and traiffque is imposible!

So how will this work? And what about the Venice Film Festival, which is two months later? Sacre bleu! Stay tuned…

Again, let me reiterate, it is HOT in July down there.

 

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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