The organisers hope to have in-person attendance.
The Cannes Movie Pageant, cancelled altogether final 12 months by the pandemic, is suspending this 12 months’s version from Might to July in hopes of getting an in-person pageant.
Cannes organisers introduced on Wednesday that this 12 months’s pageant will now happen July 6-17, about two months after its typical interval. The French Riviera pageant, which had run for practically 75 years with few interruptions, is presently hoping the coronavirus recedes sufficient by summertime.
Cannes final 12 months first checked out a postponement of its 73rd pageant to June or July earlier than finally cancelling altogether. The pageant nonetheless went forward with a variety announcement to have a good time the movies it had deliberate to incorporate in its prestigious lineup.
This 12 months, organisers are intent on having a pageant, a technique or one other. No particulars have been introduced on Wednesday on what form a 2021 version would possibly take.