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Red carpet, evening gowns and an array of photographers: the symbolic edition of Cannes 2020, the world's most prestigious film festival, opens for three days with the screening of Emmanuel Courcol's film "The Big Hit" ("Un triomphe" in French), with the ambition of giving life to a sector suffocated by the health crisis. IMAGES
Xavier Dolan and the cast of his film "Matthias et Maxime" step out onto the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival. The Canadian director is back in Cannes three years after winning the Grand Prix for "Juste la fin du monde", the competition's second most prestigious prize. IMAGES
Musicians Thomas and Jacques Dutronc arrive at the crematorium of the Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris for a ceremony in tribute to Françoise Hardy, the emblematic figure of the Sixties who died aged 80. IMAGES
The Acropolis in Athens, Greece's most visited tourist site, shuts its ticket booth and closes to the public during the hottest hours of the day as a heatwave bakes the country. The culture ministry said the UNESCO-listed archaeological site would close from midday to 5:00 pm (0900 to 1400 GMT). IMAGES
Indian director Payal Kapadia says she hopes it "won't take another thirty years" for an Indian film to win a prize at Cannes after she was awarded the Grand Prix for the film "All We Imagine as Light." SOUNDBITE
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