Example sentences for: cannes

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

  • Cannes Film Festival Roundup.

  • (Three years ago, Angelopoulos bad-mouthed Cannes when his film Ulysses' Gaze didn't win.)

  • Throughout this terse, entertaining parable (it won the grand prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival), the Belgian-born writer-directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne ( La Promesse , 1996) immerse you in the sensations of Rosetta's life: her daily, roundabout slog through the woods to reach the trailer park where she lives with her alcoholic mother (she's too ashamed to go through the front entrance); her frustrating treks to find employment, however menial; and, most of all, her countless rages at a society that refuses to grant her a "normal" (her word) existence.

  • Complaints about Cannes' overwrought glitz subside during the festival's second week.

  • "The quintessential Cannes fortnight, indeed, would involve no films at all--just invitations to parties that never happen and rumors of films that will never be made," says The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane.


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