Odeon West End 21st to 25th August 2008

It's so good it's scary - The Guardian

POSTCARDS FROM CANNES
May 13th - Pre Festival

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls welcome to the first day of the FrightFest Postcards from Cannes for 20 ---- hey, hang on, is this not how I opened last year’s on-line postcards? What the hell, at this late hour on a Tuesday, it saves me coming up with anything original. So where was I, oh yes ----- 07 08. For the second third year your unholy trio foursome will be reporting back to the FrightFest web site from the South of France and the Cannes Film Festival with our Postcards. Read all about our adventures or in some cases our misadventures in the South of France at the 60th 61st Cannes Film Festival.

So it’s Tuesday evening and the eve of the festival, supposedly one of the most glamorous events in the world, and what’s happening at villa FrightFest. Well, the boys, Alan, Diego and Paul are playing rummy, Johanna is doing her e-mails, I’m posting this, some piece of crap about tall people is playing on the television in the corner on some obscure cable TV channel, and it’s has been pissing it down outside.

We arrived on Sunday an hour or so late. We left the hottest day of the year so far and flew into the wettest spring in the South of France for many years. After unpacking we headed off for our usual first night eatery, the Café Ta Ta. The French were enjoying one of their extended Bank Holidays, you know the ones that their new president has been trying, with out much success, to cancel. I think we in the UK we have missed a trick here. Most French Bank Holidays are midweek so, if it’s on a Thursday, everyone also has Friday off. Anyway, we couldn’t get a table, so we ended up slumming it round the corner at another restaurant.

Enough of the mundane and on to the business at hand. We are here to fill the few remaining slots left for August’s big event. Thanks to Paul; who as been doggedly trawling through the Marche du film guide, we have over 90 odd films lined up to see. Now, you and I know that we will never see this amount of films in the ten days that we are here, but we will give it a good try.

Each day one of us will be posting a postcard on line, so check back daily to see what we’ve been up to and have seen.

So, until the next time.

Ian.