The Cannes film festival has bowed to the inevitable and announced that its 2020 edition cannot go ahead in “its original form”.
In a statement, festival management said: “It is clearly difficult to assume that the Festival de Cannes could be held this year in its original form.”
We hope to be able to communicate promptly regarding the shapes that this Cannes 2020 will take.”
Cannes still appears to hold out hope that the festival can operate in some form this year, saying they will “explore all contingencies” to make “Cannes 2020 real, in one way or another”.