Cannes

It's 7:45pm on the 3rd day of my trip to the Cannes Film Festival. It has been action packed since we arrived Monday morning at 8am in Nice.  The woman Francoise, who we are renting a studio from, picked us up from the airport. We have a quaint little place about a 20 minute bus ride from near her house. 

Since Monday morning we have travelled around to several cities and familiarized ourselves with the festival process and area.  Yesterday we went to Vermiglia, Italy, Monte Carlo, Monaco, and Eze, France as well and walked around Cannes-ALL IN ONE DAY!! Today Mike and I visted Grasse, France. How cool is that??!!

We have met so many nice people and will write more about some of the beautiful places and funny experiences we have had so far-some revolve around us not speaking the language! lol!!I won't even mention the restaurant in Italy that we'll just say -DID NOT HAVE A TOILET! Luckily most people are very nice and patient with us. But most speak english in Cannes. I feel privileged to interact with the locals outside of Cannes who do not speak english. I just consult my handy phrase and/or french/english dictionary.  We seem to be getting by decently.

The official start of the festival was today. Tomorrow we have our first action packed film festival day. It was very cool watching the red carpet event for the premiere of UP. It is very exciting to be around all of the talented and enthusiastic filmmakers!  

We hope to get into an exclusive event with Francis Ford Coppola discussing his new film Tetro. There are three screenings tomorrow and we hope to get into one of those too. But the icing on the cake would be able to get into the premiere to see Inglorious Bastards next week. They have a last minute line to take place of no-shows.  We can only hope.........