How Cannes learnt to manage dissent

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The lessons of 1968 have stood Cannes Film Festival organisers in good stead. That was when Nouvelle Vague (French New Wave) directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, echoing the leftist student protests sweeping the nation, brought the festival to a halt on its ninth day. The world’s premier film festiv