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The Cannes Film Festival was held first in September 1939—but World War II turned the world upside down stopped it being held then. Instead, it opened in 1946 and since then has taken place every year except for 1948, when the Palais des Festivals was not ready to receive it At Festival time, Cannes is transformed. A temporary town springs into being, its head- quarters divided between the crowded Festival Hall overlooking the blue waters of the Mediter- ranean and the elegant, jostling lobby of the Carlton Hotel. Who knows what will happen— recorded or not recorded—in this luxurious, exotic setting ? In the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, the accent was on youth—and stars from all over the world were welcomed by the younger set of the French screen. Youngest of all was 14-year-old Jean Pierre Leaud, the star of Les 400 Coups {The 400 Blows), which won for its director, 27-year-old Francois Truffaut, an award for the best direction— and this was his first feature film, a charming story of the fears and distresses that beset children. Award for the best actor went to three stars— Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman and Orson Wells in Compulsion —and for the best actress to French Simone Signoret for her brilliant perform- ance as the unhappy wife used by Laurence Harvey in his rise to prosperity in Room at the Top. At Argentina’s first ever film festival—the Mar del Plate F ilm Festival, held last year from 10th to 20th March— I Was Monty's Double, Ice Cold in Alex and A Night to Remember were shown. John Mills, the only British star to attend, was given a tremendous reception. He could not move without being surround^ by crowds. The Venice Film Festival in 1959 marked its 20th anniversary. It began in 1932 and originally was a biennial event and this, with the war years added, accounts for the discrepancy in the anni- versary date. This was the first year that it had a special section for TV films, in which Granada won first prize for Table Manners. It is known as the “ Mostra ” and its opening night was marked by more pomp and ceremony than usual. The film shown was The Boy on the Bridge, that charming little story of a Iwy who temporarily lives on Tower Bridge and makes friends with a seaguU. Those present included the boy star of the film Ian MacLaine, who during the performance sat next to Gina Lollobrigida. The 14 films shown, one each night, were chosen by the Festival’s selection committee, who had seen 132 films during the preceding six months, the only criterion of their choice being the artistic qxiality of the film. Ingmar Bergman’s The Face, the Swedish film, and America’s Anatomy of a Murder were among the 14. The end of June saw the opening of the Berlin Film Festival, which began in 1951, during which CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 ABOVE : Micheline Presle and Marcel Achard danced—when not on jury duty—at Cannes durinc the 195* Festival. The scene, acain, is Cannes. And amonc plushy limousines was a bike. Its Tati, used it