Cannes Day 4

Day 4 was pretty eventful.

I rushed out in the morning to get to this 'state of the industry for women' talk at the Israeli pavilion. I met three good contacts there too. Hopefully we'll keep in touch.
After that I went to see Damned Kid thinking it was a comedy. I knew literally nothing about it and instead got a hard-hitting and depression period drama. I wasn't dissatisfied; it was actually pretty good.
Then I got coffee and went to see a documentary called The Last Sermon thinking it was a drama. What I got instead was a 10 minute preview and a different documentary called Blues By the Beach. Both were extraordinarily fascinating, but more fascinating than the films was the producer. He had made these films having survived a terrorist attack. He also had a good sense of humor and a fondness for music, as he demonstrated by getting up in front of the audience and playing the french national anthem on a harmonica.

I tried ticket begging afterwards and got tickets to The Spy Gone South, only to realize nobody was going to it and I'd have to go home alone. Reticent to taxi home myself, I gave my ticket away and ran for the train. I caught the train alright, the one going the opposite direction! Thus, I was stuck in a creepy train station by myself in Cannes-La-Bocca freaking out for a half hour until I caught the opposite train and made it home.
Here's to fewer transportation incidents.

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