...and a freaking life-defining weekend! It is not possible to put into words how phenomenal my weekend at the Cannes film festival was. The glitz and glamor, the red carpet premieres, the film professionals scurrying from screening to screening -- it all came to life right before my eyes. I was on a high for practically the entire weekend, keeping my spirits up even after a damp day on Friday and running out of battery right in the middle of the Montée des Marches!
Putting aside the fact that Giovanni Ribisi waved to me, and that I saw living legend Jerry Lewis on the red carpet, and that Martin Scorcese was mere feet away from me, one of the biggest highlights was exchanging a few words with Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard, the main actors in Lynn Shelton's "Humpday". I had seen a screening of the movie, which is part of the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Director's Fortnight) section of the festival, the previous evening -- and when they appeared in front of me at the Taking Woodstock gala screening on Saturday night asking a guard for directions to the entrance, I couldn't let the opportunity slip by. I complemented them on the film, and Duplass (best known as one of the key players in the mumblecore movement) thanked me before rushing off to the screening.
As I said many times over the course of the weekend, I want the next time I go to Cannes to be for real. Up until last summer, I had been working up towards this year abroad in France. And now that this chapter in my life is coming to a close, I am ready to start working towards my next goal: being a professional in the film industry, and making it to the Cannes Film Festival as a participant, not just an observer.
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