View of the city of Cannes
The most important film festival in the world is a showcase of luxury, glamour, stardom and lightness of helmets . Also good movies, yes. We tell you the essentials of the French city:
The Red carpet. Watching a movie is reserved for those touched by the magic wand of accreditation, but the red carpet of the Palais is free and accessible for mythomaniacs ; everyone who is someone in the world of cinema ends up passing and posing here. For less perishable stardom, there's the Maeght Foundation , in the medieval village of Saint Paul de Vence , where works by 20th-century artists who changed art history, from Braque to Miró, are on display.
The Croisette. On the most emblematic boulevard of the city are the beautiful facades of the palaces converted into hotels: they are the Carlton (shot by Hitchcock in To Catch a Thief), the Majestic or the Martinez. The part of the beach closest to each of them is usually private, but for about 30 euros a day you get exclusivity and compadreo with the most chosen of the visitors in, for example, the Z Plage of the Hotel Martinez. The same success as Grace Kelly or Cary Gran is not guaranteed. t. Of course, the old neighborhood of Le Suquet it's free and with authenticity to test any budget.
The Côte d'Azur in its fullness
The golden palm. It is not only the name of the most respected film award (because the most famous is a golden naked man), it is also the name of the super restaurant at the super Hotel Martínez. And also eating well is the golden palm of almost any trip, something that in France this is almost guaranteed. In addition to the aforementioned Palme d'or, Astoux et Brun offers the best seafood and a pilgrimage to La Colombe d'or (they love gold here), in Saint Paul de Vence, one of those historic restaurants where Matisse ate or Picasso and where from time to time artists They paid the bill with a work sketched at a whirlwind that today is worth a potosí.
A certain look. Beyond the pageantry of celluloid (or the ones and zeros that make it up now) Cannes is in one of the most beautiful and traditional territories of France and in its surroundings the points of interest compete. At Îles de Lérins is reached by a half-hour boat trip and it seems that we are in another world; In Santa Margarita and San Honorato it is easy to forget the crowds strolling through the woods, visiting the Museo del Mar or evoking the mystery of the man in the Iron Mask, imprisoned here three centuries ago. In addition to the already mentioned Saint Paul de Vence, Grasse is a stone's throw away and in addition to the world headquarters of perfume is a beautiful medieval town directly inspired by the novel Perfume by Patrick Suskind.
The alternative. More than a joke with the phonetic resemblance, it is already a consolidated event expert in making a virtue of necessity turning surreal occurrences into a hilarious reality: the Cans Festival, in the Galician village of the same name, screens short films , organizes talks, is open to everyone, trades limousines for tractors and splurges on agroglamour.
Cannes: a showcase of cinema and sea