For over thirty years, Gilles Jacob has been the soul of the biggest film festival in the world - the Cannes Festival - of which he was elected President in 2000. As witness and champion of the film industry, Jacob describes in Citizen Cannes his journey from that of a Jewish boy saved by a Catholic seminary during World War II, later becoming an entrepreneur and a film critic, and finally an accomplished man who in 1978 was appointed general delegate of the biggest vanity fair in the world.

French title: Vie passera comme un rêve. "First published in English 2011. ... Published in French by Robert Laffont, 2009. ... Translated by Sarah Robertson"--P. [384]. "30 years behind the scenes of the world's greatest festival"--Cover. Includes index.