Riviera Reels
The 2025 Cannes Film Festival officially closed Saturday with the anointing of newly minted Palme d’Or winner “It Was Just an Accident.” The award thrust Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi into a rarefied group of directors to win top honors at Berlin, Cannes and Venice, the so-called “Big Three” international film festivals. (The others so honored, Henri-Georges Cluzot, Michelangelo Antonioni and Robert Altman, make for a circle of legendary good company). The prize ceremony marked the end of two weeks of celebrating the best in world cinema from one of the most gorgeous places on Earth, events most of us could only watch from environs far less glamorous than Cannes’ La Croisette. Even the lucky few who did attend have likely disembarked to their more humdrum hometowns. Thank heavens, then, for good old movie magic, which can bring the French Riviera home with the click of a remote. Most silver-screen sojourns to the region begin with Alfred Hitchcock’s trés charmant 1955 classic “To Catch a Thief.” And with good reason. Watching Cary Grant’s reformed larcenist John “The Cat” Robie attempt to clear his name after a spate of new seaside burglaries never grows old. His mission is intensified by a romantic pas-de-deuxFollow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.
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