What It's Like to Open the Cannes Film Festival As a First-Time Actor

READ MORE: Cannes Review: The First Great Discovery of 2015 is Rod Paradot in Emmanuelle Bercot's 'Standing Tall'When Indiewire met French actor Rob Paradot, the first major breakout of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, he immediately confessed that he hadn't gotten get a wink of sleep. That didn't come as much of a surprise considering his first film, "Standing Tall," written and directed by Emmanuelle Bercot, opened the festival on Wednesday night.  In the bruising drama, Paradot, who had never acted before in his life, gives a star-making turn as Malony, a deeply troubled 15-year-old who comes from an equally troubled home. French icon Catherine Deneuve...

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