It took the protests at the May 1968 festival and the demands of festival critics like Jean - Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer and François Truffaut to not only close down the festival that year but create
a parallel section of films — the directors» fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) where the reputation for auteur film was established.
Not exact matches
This glowing image also provides some sort
of compensation as, for once, there are no Italian
films in any
of the other official selections, though the
parallel section Director's Fortnight does have three.
The
parallel Un Certain Regard
section also opened, and the Kenyan
film «Rafiki» from director Wanuri Kahiu was one
of the first
films screened.