In David Lisnard’s office, the walls would be almost too small to accommodate all the Cannes Film Festival posters, most of which are autographed. We also see a photo of the mayor with Barack Obama. And the city councilor does not fail to remind the young man seated on his right that the last time he saw his father, producer Dan Friedkin, was “in the presence of the president of Apple, of (Martin) Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. This young man is called Ryan, and since Monday he has been the new president of AS Cannes, the training club of Zinédine Zidane, Patrick Vieira or Johan Micoud.
