Citizen Cannes
Subtitle: the man behind the Cannes Film Festival
By: Gilles Jacob
Publisher: Phaidon
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780714861906
Subjects: Motion pictures; Film festivals; Competitions; Cannes Film Festival; Motion picture actors and actresses; Motion picture producers and directors; Motion picture industry; Biography; History
Other titles: Man behind the Cannes Film Festival
Work titles: Vie passera comme un rêve
Description: For over thirty years, Gilles Jacob has been the soul of the biggest film festival in the world - the Cannes Festival - of which he was elected President in 2000. As witness and champion of the film industry, Jacob describes in Citizen Cannes his journey from that of a Jewish boy saved by a Catholic seminary during World War II, later becoming an entrepreneur and a film critic, and finally an accomplished man who in 1978 was appointed general delegate of the biggest vanity fair in the world.
Notes: "First published in English 2011. ... Published in French by Robert Laffont, 2009. ... Translated by Sarah Robertson"--P. [384].

"30 years behind the scenes of the world's greatest festival"--Cover.

Includes index.