Example sentences for: cannes

How can you use “cannes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Movie --Cannes Film Festival Roundup;

  • Event --Cannes International Film Festival;

  • After winning Best Director at Cannes and making a splash at the New York Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar's ode to women opens to gushing praise: "the most moving film of his career" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). A single mother whose teen-age son is suddenly killed makes a pilgrimage to track down the boy's father and in the process encounters women from all walks of life--transsexuals, pregnant nuns, divas, and more.

  • "[T]he annihilation of everything Cannes has stood for" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). "A spectacular triumph of style over substance," says the Washington Post 's Rita Kempley.

  • Miramax has been the driving force behind some of the most acclaimed films of the last decade: sex, lies, and videotape ; The Piano ; Pulp Fiction ; Clerks ; Red ; Il Postino ; Trainspotting ; The English Patient ; and Good Will Hunting . It has won five Palmes d'Or (the Cannes Film Festival's top prize) and more than 100 Oscar nominations.


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