40x15: Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight (40x15: Les Quarante Ans de la Quinzaine des Realisateurs)

 
Film Reviews: The often stormy, sometimes downright crazy, history of what the Cannes Film Festival still refers to as a "parallel section" rather than by its actual name gets a warm 40th anni pat on the back from a battalion of big names in docu. (link)

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40x15 les Quarante Ans de la Quinzaine des Realisateurs (40x15: Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight)
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