A Tip For Cannes
The German pavilion has a much faster Internet connection than the UK Film Centre. The only problem is that the Z and Y keys are reversed on the German keyboard. If I make anz strange tzpos, zou'll know whz.
More impressions:
One of my first purchases in Cannes was a black bowtie. I lost mine some time ago, and I gather that if you show up to a Gala Premiere in the Palais de Cinema without a black tie, you won't be admitted. Apparently, in response to this, there are enterprising local residents hanging outside the Palais in the evenings, selling black ties for up to 100 Euros apiece.
My one celebrity sighting thus far has been Jason Schwartzman, straightening his tie in the bathroom of the Majestic Hotel shortly before the official Cannes screening of Marie Antoinette. His tie, I noted, was a straight tie, not a bowtie. I wondered if he would be ejected from his own premiere.
Did you really have to pay 100 Euros for a black bowtie? Would it have cost you as much to fly home to get your own tie?
More keys are switched on French keyboards (a, q, w, z, at least, if I remember correctly). My professor would e-mail me from France, typing with a French accent, as we called it. (Okay, we engineers thought it was funny. Equations involving a, q, w, and z were trickier though.)
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I bought a tie for 12 Euros in a department store, in order to avoid having to pay 100 Euros for one on the steps of the Palais.
But, yeah, 100Euros would have been more than my roundtrip ticket to France.