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Woody Allen walked the red carpet with the cast of his 46th film, "Café Society". The romantic yarn set in cinema's golden age received mixed reviews from critics as it launched the world's top film festival. IMAGES of red carpet
"Our wish was to hold a festival where we would avoid controversy," says Thierry Frémaux, the Cannes Film Festival general Deputy director, a day before opening, as rumors swell around potential accusations of sexual abuse concerning artists. SOUNDBITE
France's new Education Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera calls for and end "to the chapter of personal attacks" amid growing controversy over the enrolment of her children in private schools. Speaking to the media while visiting the Olympic Village in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, Oudea-Castera added that she "believes in public schools". SOUNDBITE
French Defence Minister Florence Parly meets Malian transitional President Bah N'Daw at the presidency in Bamako. Counterparts from Estonia, Kalle Laanet, and the Czech Republic, Lubomir Metnar, are part of the delegation. A UN report on Tuesday found a French air strike killed in 19 civilians in northern Mali in January. IMAGES
Red carpet, evening gowns and an array of photographers: the symbolic edition of Cannes 2020, the world's most prestigious film festival, opens for three days with the screening of Emmanuel Courcol's film "The Big Hit" ("Un triomphe" in French), with the ambition of giving life to a sector suffocated by the health crisis. IMAGES
Un regard intime sur la vie, la carrière et le processus créatif de l'auteur-réalisateur le plus prolifique des États-Unis, de sa plus tendre enfance à Brooklyn jusqu'à la sortie de son dernier film à succès "Minuit à Paris".