festival in the world, held each May in 1. ______

　　the resort city of Cannes, in southeast France.

　　The Cannes Film Festival was conceived at the end of?

　　1938 as a reaction of reports that the Venice Film 2. ______

　　Festival became a platform for fascist propaganda. 3. ______

　　Due to World War II (1939-1945) however, the first

　　Cannes Film Festival was not held till 1946. 4. ______

　　Internationalism and postwar optimism characterized the first?

　　festival, although organizers placed less emphasis on 5. ______

　　competition as on mutual creative stimulation between 6. ______

　　national productions. In later years the selection, by juries,

　　of entries for prizes was reflected more commercial 7. ______

　　interests and the festival soon acquired

　　its current reputation as a fashionable professional event,

　　more concerning with advancing the film industry than 8. ______

　　the art of film . French director Francois Truffaut addressed

　　these issues in 1956 which he exposed the 9. ______

　　festival’s political intrigues and promotional deals, and

　　predicted its commercial demise. The festival survived,

　　however and in 1959, Truffaut himself was awarded the

　　prize for best screenplay for Les Quatre Cents Coups (The Four Hundred Blows, 1959). ?

　　In spite its ever present financial interests and political 10. ______

　　overtones, the Cannes Film Festival remains an essential?

　　showcase for international cinema.
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