Off The Duff

I was not alone.

There were many of our students and a professor, too, that fell victim to the allure and fate of Sofia Coppola’s new film, “The Bling Ring” (based on these actual events), which opened the Un Certain Regard competition tonight in Cannes.

With a screening time of 7:45PM we queued up in the drizzly Debussy Theatre line at 5PM – some folks, even earlier than that. But even after 3+ hours of standing in line with other Festival and Market Badge possessors we didn’t make it into the premiere.

Methinks it could have something to do with the curious fact that the line started at about a 3-person width (shown below on the LEFT – photo taken @5:15) and miraculously ended with an 8 or 9-person width (shown below on the RIGHT – photo taken @7:30). Funny how that happens, huh?

Curses on you cheaters and line-cutters!

Ahhh, well. What can you do?

Guess there’s nothing left to say but – “And, so it is…”