CANNES DIARY: DAY 4
Chad Sternberger
May 19, 2013
CANNES – So there’s me, Benicio del Toro, six Chilean short film directors and Valeria Golino and we walk into this bar. It’s not a joke. I’m just bragging.
So we’re well into the festival and I have to say one or two things I’ve learnt for the benefit of my fellow festival goers and hopefully it’ll be of interest to you sad sacks who couldn’t get into an international film festival even if you were Ang Lee’s shorts.
So we’re well into the festival and I have to say one or two things I’ve learnt for the benefit of my fellow festival goers and hopefully it’ll be of interest to you sad sacks who couldn’t get into an international film festival even if you were Ang Lee’s shorts.
- · Upstairs at the Palais, they have the theme music from Jurassic Park playing. Don’t worry this is not a satirical comment on the age of your junk, nor is it a tribute to Steven Spielberg, rather it’s a way of discouraging cocaine use as it is well known that hop heads despise velociraptors.
- · The security hate bottled water and will confiscate it as you enter the Palais or any of the screening rooms. Do not flout this rule. It doesn’t exist for any safety reasons, or hygiene, or to avoid spillage, but because the security all had a childhood trauma with bottled water and are sent into rages at the sight of it.
- · If you meet Tom Brook of the BBC don’t try and touch his mustache. It’s tempting I know, but leave it alone. That’s Tom’s mustache and he’s the only person allowed to touch it.
- · Don’t eat the free sweets in the press room. I laced them all with laboratory strong acid. Incidentally, this explains the positive reviews for The Bling Ring, all of which came from the Press Room.
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