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Cannes Film Festival Power Restored After 5-Hour Outage Across South of France With Foul Play Suspected, Closing Ceremony to ‘Proceed as Planned’
The city of Cannes was hit by a major power outage on Saturday morning, just hours before the film festival is set to award this year's Palme d'Or.
The city of Cannes was hit by a major power outage on Saturday morning, just hours before the film festival is set to award this year’s Palme d’Or. French broadcaster France 3 posted a video to its X account showing attendees navigating the festival in the dark, saying there had been a “general power outage in the city.” Jury president Juliette Binoche and members Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong, Payal Kapadia, Hong Sansoo, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi and Carlos Reygadas will hand out the festival’s top awards.
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