Cannes Guest Blogger Day 4
Sounds like the party-ing's getting hot and heavy! Here's Robert's Day 4 report:
Day 4
I’m pleased to be writing these blog postings every day because otherwise I think I might lose track of the days!
I finished at 4:30am yesterday…well.. earlier today and that was only because they shut the bar otherwise I fear I could have been there at sunrise! And what a day for meeting people – best day so far I’d say.
There are a lot of cinemas in Cannes and the afternoon screening of Clubbed (great film - a kinda character-driven British gangster movie) was at the Star – probably the cinema farthest away from the main festival building. I set off well ahead of time and was glad I did because I ran into quite a few people I know so had to make frequent stops to talk. The first person I met was the producer of a movie now in post directed by Duncan Jones (David Bowie’s son) called Moon. I’d seen only a few stills on the film’s Facebook page but running into Stuart he whipped out his iPod and allowed me to watch the trailer (they’re selling the movie out here but it yet has many months of post-production SFX to be added so viewings of the trailer have been by invitation only I believe). Oh man! Superb – I gotta get an invitation to the premiere of this movie. I don’t know how much of what I was told is public knowledge and how much was in confidence so I won’t say any more except check out the Facebook page and track how this film becomes bigger and bigger over the coming year.
After Clubbed I took in another meeting I’d arranged and then took a shower and got ready for the evening.
I had dinner with a old friend and producer and then Calum I got into the Tatu party – yeah them, the Russian lesbian band… only they’re not lesbians any more apparently. The girls are out here with a film to promote and as part of the promotion threw a party on the beach and played a 40 minute set. The photos are from the beach gig. How did we get invited? We met Troy the guitarist in a hotel bar a few nights ago. Amazing. Calum did all the hard work though as the two of them really hit it off. His encyclopaedic knowledge of obscure indie bands finally came into use :)
Le Petit Majestic
The Tatu party kicked out at 1am and we ended the evening at Cannes’ famous Le Petit Majestic. Now I’m not a big fan of this place because it can be difficult to get a drink and last night was no exception – it was totally rammed. The bar is on a street corner and the crow spills out into crossroads for about 30 yards in all directions. There was even a 12-man line at the men’s restrooms. Still, I did meet a couple of cool people while waiting in the queue so not such a problem in the end :)
The LPM is Cannes’ worst kept secret. It’s the place where filmmakers rich and poor, the already-made-it and the aspiring throw aside all pretentions and mingle together. It’s a great place to meet people but I have to confess I was dragged along kicking and screaming because it’s not my kinda place really. Nevertheless I was proved wrong and had a great time and probably met about 5 producers just between 3am and 4am! One of whom I met when we both almost got run over by a car full of interns that tried to drive through the crowd! Only in Cannes….
So I didn’t make my usual 8am breakfast today. Got up about 10:30am and got ready for a meeting with a scriptwriter. She’d emailed me yesterday for a meeting and I was very pleased she did because I liked her pitch today and look forward to reading the script.
Not sure what I’m going to do this afternoon – my hands have just started shaking with the alcohol abuse… maybe time to re-centre myself for a few hours? Have to do it all again at 6pm – we’ve got invites to a penthouse party being thrown by a sales agent… I’ll let you know how it goes!
