Photography exhibition ‘Chronicles of a festival’

Photography exhibition ‘Chronicles of a Festival’ by Gérard Rondeau.

Tuesday 7 October 2025 from 7 pm.
From 08/10 to 31/10/2025 on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday between 9 am and 12.30 pm and between 2.30 pm and 6 pm.
From 01/11 to 26/12/2025 on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday between 9 am and 12.30 pm and between 2 pm and 5.30 pm.
except on bank holidays.

In 1989 and 1990, Le Monde sent Gérard Rondeau to cover the Cannes Film Festival with the mission of delivering one photograph per day, accompanied by a caption written by Danièle Heymann.
Where many photographers bow to the festival's constraints (tuxedos in bright sunlight, conventional shots of starlets and artificial appearances), Rondeau adopts a unique perspective, both loving and uncompromising.

His lens was not limited to the expected images: he revealed what went on behind the scenes, the truth of Cannes.
He captured the loneliness of the great figures of cinema in the impersonal rooms of luxury hotels, the light-heartedness of passers-by delighted with sandwiches and autographs, the Croisette in the early morning, cleansed of its excesses, and the fleeting grace of Nastassja Kinski.
His eye also transforms symbols: Polanski's Pirate ship becomes a shrunken memory, a snake man entertains the crowd in front of the Palais, Gregory Peck slips away with a farewell gesture...

Organised by the Culture and Heritage Department.