Cannes film festival will only cancel if coronavirus outbreak worsens
Festival’s president, Pierre Lescure, says he remains reasonably optimistic that event will run
The president of the Cannes film festival has said that the 2020 edition will be cancelled if the coronavirus outbreak worsens but at present he is “reasonably optimistic” it will go ahead.
Speaking to Le Figaro, festival president Pierre Lescure said: “We remain reasonably optimistic in the hope that the peak of the epidemic will be reached at the end of March and that we will breathe a little better in April.”