1968 - There was no Cannes Film Festival. But even so...

1968 was such a year that we did not have then the most important film festival (the Cannes Film Festival). It was scheduled to happen in May -- May, France, 1968 all that meaning everything but a calm environment.

The festival, that supposed to be the 21th, had just its first session. During the exhibition of the first movie, from the Spanish Carlos Saura, the session was interrupted by a group of directors like Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Lelouche, that got on staged and declared that the festival was to end "in solidarity with workers and students" that were protesting across France.

The organization of the festival tried to convince them to let it continue but it was in vain. The protests spread across Cannes, four members of the jury quit and the festival was cancelled.

A lot of people supposed that it as the end of the Cannes festivals. They were wrong. In 1969 the festival was back and never sttoped again. And the 1969 Cannes Festival was like a reproduction of the year of 1968 in the screen. The films showed then were different, remarkable, like "Z", "If", Easy Rider"...

So we could say that there was no Cannes Film Festival in 1968. But we can say also that 1968 was shown in the festival of 1969...

1968 was really incredible, wasn't it?