Cannes: the black and white years Brigitte Bardot, photographed at Cannes in 1956, kicks off our two-part photo essay to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, which opens on the Cote d’Azur today. BB, one of countless cinema beauties associated with the festival over the years, was there for And God Created Woman, directed by her first husband, Roger Vadim. The film critic Ivon Addams wrote at the time, ‘She is every man's idea of the girl he'd like to meet in Paris’