Street murals - an unexpected but lovely vista of Cannes.

It all started in 2002 when the city authorities decided to decorate firewalls (deaf, windowless walls of the houses). General approval for the idea to create a mural, united by one theme - the cinema as in the minds of most people in Cannes primarily related to the film festival.

In 2004, the first four were ready frescoes. We worked on them artists from different firms that specialize in such work. Now fifteen frescoes.

One of the first, the most famous, written just based on the Cannes Film Festival, located at the foot of the hill of Le Suquet, the square Bertrand Cornu-Gentil. If a tourist is sent to the hill, he was on the way to visit the mural. Bright, well-dressed in crimson and turquoise colors, it takes a wall of four-story buildings. The house is dispatching the bus station, and depicted on the mural famous actors and directors are looking at an area full of buses. Actors in the images of his most famous characters pop out of windows and standing on the balconies and at the bottom of the tourists happily trying to identify all. The easiest way to find Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand from the movie "Let's make love," Kate Winsley and Leonardo DiCaprio in "Titanic", animated Minnie, Mickey and Roger Rabbit.

Unprepared passers-by looking at the mural, often think that only drawn characters, and all the windows and balconies - are real. In fact, these windows there are only four, everything else - the classic "snag" for centuries in a row to apply the method of volume figure.

In the same style mural painted on the house number 7 on the street Suisse - the viewer the impression that he is facing the prospect of a sunny waterfront: the actors come to it, which removes the operators. Immediately director sitting in a chair, next to - the assistant, and the audience seems to stand behind them.

From popular tourist destination image - Gerard Philipe as Fanfan-Tulip (Boulevard Victor Tyubi 3), Charlie Chaplin (Boulevard Vallombrosa, 10) and, of course, a huge portrait of Marilyn Monroe on the house number 16 Boulevard Alsace. Create artist Patrick Kommesi it considers this the most difficult job of his career - because of the size: only one mouth of Marilyn Monroe is about four meters in width. To my eyes did not leave too narrowed, Kommesi, painting them, a few hours spent in the forest, while his colleagues are at the bottom, giving him instructions on the phone.

The rest of the frescoes can be seen in the squares Suquet, Gard and June 18 Boulevard Victor Tyubi, 29, Louis Braille Street, 9, avenue Francis Tonner, Boulevard République.