Visiting the Cannes Film Festival is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but can also be totally overwhelming.
The small city normally looks like the opening sequence of Beauty and the Beast, but during the festival, it's a loud, busy mix of Vegas and Hollywood right on the Cote d'Azur. The everyday lifestyle of older gentlemen playing bocce and teenagers hanging out outside the cafes is interrupted by a 24/7 crowd of culture fanatics and film power players, walking the street in full black tie evening wear right up until sunrise. Cell phones and cameras are everywhere and yachts take over the views of the croisette.
The Festival de Cannes was founded in 1946.
Here, a homeowner sweeps her terrace amid movie posters and souvenir shops on the second day of the festival.
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Visitors and locals take a break in bleachers partitioned off between a bocce game and Boulevard de la Croisette, the main strip of Cannes separating beach from city.
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A carousel off Promenade de la Pantiero becomes a scooter parking lot during the festival.
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