Cannes 2015 Dispatch #1: This Place is Insane (in a Good Way)

I arrived in Cannes yesterday. After getting my bearings (or doing my best to do so), I was able to make it to a press screening for the festival's opening film, "Standing Tall." I so admire Catherine Deneuve. I remember really understanding the Denueve Effect her for the first time when I saw "Indochine" many years ago. Emmanuelle Bercot's drama is about the social welfare system in France. Bottom line: poverty sucks. It was a very interesting story, how kids born on the wrong side of the tracks just have everything stacked against them, but the film could have benefitted from being 30 minutes shorter.  It is very hard to describe Cannes; it's just so big and...

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