By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. At am Friday morning, I got it. What Cannes is truly all about. As he told TOH earlier , Farhadi comes out of the theater, and it was interesting to hear in the press conference, from Bejo, that Farhadi and the cast rehearsed for two months prior to four months of shooting.
Two months! Mosaffa quietly sucks all the attention when he enters the room; no wonder Marie loves Ahmad and hates him, too. And Pauline Burlet as the sad teenager Lucie quietly works her way through this adult scrum until she is front and center. This is what you achieve with two months of rehearsal, and a director who know exactly what he wants. Including a last scene that might strike those who have grown up on the Coen Brothers as slightly, slightly cheesy β or what we used to call sincerity and real emotion.
The lines were longer for everything, there was no place to sit in the Wifi cafe, everyone one is hindered by everyone else and the Nespresso bar was like the Whole Foods on Fairfax on the night before Thanksgiving. Here are some numbers for this years festival: 30, accreditations over all, nearly of which are journalists from media outlets; photographers; visual technicians; employees 20 full-time year-round ; a 20 million euro budget, half of which is state-financed, with other financing from the region and the city of Cannes and sponsors.
Clearly it was time for a Brazilian bikini fashion show on the beach. I pictured bronzed amazons in slivers of clothing, Samba music fueling their raucous jaunt through the crowds, while we guests slugged down giant caipirinhas. I wound up with a glass of white wine and stood around stiffly while some young local girls walked through the crowd in bikinis that seemed suspiciously unBrazilian while looking frankly uncomfortable, and who can blame them?
Afterwards, crossing the Croisette, I nearly bumped into a young American woman who had suddenly stopped cold in the street, ogling her smartphone. I was also thinking about LA as an environment and how that would have impacted her.
