Citizen Cannes
Author | : Gilles Jacob |
Publisher | : Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-06-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 0714861901 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780714861906 |
Rating | : 4/5 (906 Downloads) |
Download or read book Citizen Cannes written by Gilles Jacob and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 -- Cover