Street murals – an unexpected, but sweet attraction of Cannes.

It all started in 2002 when the city authorities decided to decorate firewalls (blank, windowless walls of houses). General approval for the idea to create frescoes, United by one theme – the film, because in the minds of most people in Cannes are primarily associated with the film festival.

In 2004, the first four were ready frescoes. Worked on them artists from different firms specializing in such work. Now frescos fifteen.

One of the first, most famous, which is written on motives of the Cannes film festival, is at the foot of the hill of Le Suquet, on the square Bertrand Root-Gentile. If a tourist goes to the hill, on his way to see this mural. Bright, elegant, crimson and turquoise, it occupies a four-story wall of the building. The house is dispatching bus station, and is depicted on the mural of the famous actors and Directors look at a square full of buses. The actors in the images of his most famous characters pop out of Windows and standing on the balcony, and tourists downstairs happily trying to identify all. Easiest way to learn Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand from the film "let's make love", Kate Winsle and Leonardo DiCaprio from the Titanic, cartoon Minnie, Mickey and Roger Rabbit.

Unprepared passers-by, looking at the mural, often think that only characters drawn, and all the Windows and balconies were real. In fact, these Windows were only four, all the rest is classic "snag", used for thousands of centuries volumetric method pattern.

In the same written style mural on the house number 7 on the street Suisse – the viewer the impression as if he confronts the prospect of a sun-drenched waterfront, take the actors, who read the statements. Here in the Director chair sits near the Wrangler, and the audience is behind their backs.

From popular tourist images – Philip Gerard in the role of the Fanfan-the Tulip (the Boulevard Victor Tuby, 3), Charlie Chaplin (Boulevard Vallombrosa, 10) and, of course, a huge portrait of Marilyn Monroe on the house number 16 on the Boulevard Alsace. Its Creator, the artist Patrick Commece considers this work the hardest during his career – because of the size: only one mouth Marilyn Monroe is about four meters wide. Your eyes were narrowed, Commece, painting them, spent several hours in the woods, while his colleagues, being at the bottom, and gave him instructions over the phone.

Other murals can be viewed on the areas of Le Suquet, Gar and June 18, Boulevard Victor Tuby, 29, street Louis Braille, 9, Avenue Francis tonner, Boulevard de La République.