 Lennon organised his own screening in Cork the following day, the resulting furore leading to a single Dublin cinema – the International Film Theatre – giving it a seven-week run to packed audiences.At Cannes, it was chosen as one of eight films to be shown during critics' week at the 1968 Festival, but immediately after the screening Coutard's sometime collaborators François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard declared the Festival suspended in sympathy with the Paris students' strike, leading to a furious debate with Lennon and other filmmakers present.Despite this, screenings were organised for the same students, as well as striking workers besieged in the Renault plant.