Cannes Film Festival in Blackout: “It could be malicious”. Interrupted projections | EUROtoday

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A couple of hours after the closing ceremony of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, the city of the French Riviera and neighboring locations corresponding to Antibes have been in the dead of night for hours. A blackout is underway all through the world making outlets, eating places and the identical inns crowded with vacationers and festivals inaccessible.

The Palais des Festivals which has an autonomous electrical generator in the mean time works and the ceremony for the golden palm ought to work frequently. However, the projections had been interrupted within the rooms exterior the Palais. According to the gendarmerie of the French Alps, contacted by France 3, the present interruption can be a non -occasional, however voluntary act, there would have been a fireplace of a excessive voltage cabin within the municipality of Tanneron (VAR). Criminal police technical specialists are on the spot and are investigating what occurred. There are those that evoke the troubles in Spain and Portugal just a few weeks in the past.

Award ceremony not in danger

According to the official model, issued by the group of the Festival, “a current interruption has currently hit the city of Cannes and its surroundings. Until now, the cause of the failure has not yet been identified and efforts to solve the problem are in progress. The Palais des Festivals “, continues the notice of the Festival,” has moved to an independent electrical power supply, allowing all the scheduled events and projections, including the closing ceremony, to take place as foreseen and in normal conditions “. However, the projections to the cineum have been quickly suspended and “will resume as soon as the current is restored”.

Without power 16 thousand homes

At midday, 16 thousand homes had been with out electrical energy within the space. The visitors lights had been turned off: “Currently they are working to restore the situation,” mentioned the Prefecture. According to what the BFMTV issuer learns, the authorities are investigating the likelihood that the hearth is malicious. Always this morning, round 10, a trellis then fell.

Italy exterior the palmares

Meanwhile, Italy would appear to have remained Out– Just just like the title of Mario Martone’s movie in competitors – Dal Palmares. As far as we be taught, no one has been recalled for the movie from Italy as a protocol desires. The movie with Valeria Golino within the function of Goliarda Sapienza is at present within the rooms distributed by 01.