Acorn TV Debuts 'Cannes Confidential' Trailer While Everyone Is At Cannes
The 76th Cannes Film Festival is on in France right now, with the Cannes market in full swing, as films get scooped up by studios for release, and movies in competition hope to set themselves up for award season come fall 2023. But while the A-listers are walking the seashore, the red carpet, and the occasional product placement set up, the rest of us are at home, living our usual lives far away from the southern coast of France. Acorn TV promises to fix that for us with Cannes Confidential, a new detective series premiering in June 2023, and the first trailer looks divine.
Cannes Confidential was one of the many series commissioners at the very end of 2019 and early 2020 that got wholly disrupted by the worldwide shutdowns and lockdowns that plagued the US and Europe throughout 2020 and 2021. However, once filming finally got underway in 2022, the series, set in the Cote d’Azur, boasted of an exclusive partnership with the city that allowed unprecedented access to film in and around Cannes. As a result, Acorn TV’s press release claims viewers will be “introduced viewers to a rarely seen view of Cannes, beyond the yachts and A-listers, with its fishing boats, local tradesmen, and working-class characters.”
The first trailer certainly promises the high-end half of Cannes and a few juicy mysteries to take us away to its fabulous beaches.
