The official theme song of the Cannes Film Festival is "The Aquarium" from Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals. It's a piece that's somehow become the go-to "magic of cinema" theme, due to its frequent use in "magic of cinema" montages in awards show telecasts and other settings in which the art of filmmaking needs to be defended or justified. Saint-Saëns' tinkling, undulating piano line, originally written to capture the flickering of underwater light, has now been repurposed to capture the flickering of light through a film projector.
It's a theme that, for a moment, can make you forget mainstream cinema's crippling franchise addiction, the crass tabloid dissection of the lives of actors, the focus groups and studio...
Cannes journal, part 1: welcome to the aquarium
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