Cannes wrapped a late, and truncated, version of its 2020 film festival on Thursday, just hours before all of France went into a second coronavirus lockdown.
The French Tech, a comedy from director Bruno Podalydès, closed the three-day mini-festival at 8 p.m. local time with a gala screening at Cannes' Palais des Festivals.
At midnight, per orders announced a day earlier by French President Emmanuel Macron, the country closed shop, entering a second COVID-19 lockdown. "We were the first major film event to be affected by the pandemic, and now we are the last festival of the autumn," Cannes festival director Thierry Frémaux told The Hollywood Reporter, referring to his decision in May to cancel the physical Cannes 2020 festival.
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