Who is Laurent Lafitte, the master of ceremonies at the Cannes Film Festival with the carnivorous joke?
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Laurent Lafitte at the Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony on May 25, 2024. VIANNEY LE CAER/AP/SIPA
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Portrait He has a taste for shocking, even borderline, jokes. For the second time, the former resident of the Comédie-Française is back in the role of master of ceremonies at the Cannes Film Festival.
Born into a wealthy family in the 16th arrondissement (his father was a property dealer), educated in Saint-Jean-de-Passy, Laurent Lafitte compares his childhood to Disneyland. "I have very calm memories of private schools, Haussmann-style apartments, the smell of leather in the car, and weekends in the countryside," he says. As a teenager, he borrowed his family's car to listen to Aznavour on the ring road: "Aznavour is the voice of the father, savou…
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