Exclusive photos from Cannes

(c) Gerald Nicosia 2012
Gerald Nicosia and Noemie Sornet waiting for the On The Road premiere.

We just received the below photos from Noemie Sornet, founder of the OnTheRoad4Kerouac Project. She and Kerouac scholar Gerald Nicosia attended the premiere of On The Road, and a post-Cannes interview with Nicosia is in the works for a future post here on The Daily Beat! It will be pretty exciting to get his take on the movie.

(c) Gerald Nicosia 2012

Palais des Festivals, Cannes, where the premiere of the movie of ON THE ROAD happened on May 23, 2012. Marilyn Monroe wishes the festival a happy 65th birthday!

(c) Gerald Nicosia 2012

Crowds of people would gather outside the Palais all day long, many of them holding up signs to ask for a ticket to some film. An “invitation,” as they are called, to ON THE ROAD was the hottest ticket in town, and the hardest to get!

 

(c) Gerald Nicosia 2012

Gerald Nicosia with Chicago film critic Patrick Z. McGavin, on the Rue du Bivouac Napoleon, near the Palais, Cannes. 

(c) Gerald Nicosia 2012

Crowd of attendees gathers on the red carpet, just before entering the Palais to see the premiere of ON THE ROAD.

(c) Gerald Nicosia 2012

Audience members begin to ascend the red carpet into the Palais, prior to the showing of ON THE ROAD.

(c) Gerald Nicosia 2012

Gerald Nicosia and Kristen Stewart at the afterparty, Magic Garden Meets the Baron club, Cannes, May 23, 2012.

(c) Gerald Nicosia 2012

Gerald Nicosia and friend Noemie Sornet, founder of the ON THE ROAD 4 KEROUAC project, underneath the giant poster of ON THE ROAD across from the Palais.

More pics to come with the Nicosia interview. Stay tuned.