2012 Cannes Film Festival - Day 5
Me trying to stay dry in the Carleton Lounge
What can I say. There has been a downpour all afternoon causing people to flee indoors. Every restaurant, lounge, hotel lobby and anything covered is filled with people. Fileena, Joanne and I fled to our favorite spot the Carleton Lounge. It was filled with people at the bar, cafe, lobby and even the toilettes (hysterical laughter). The marble floors of the lobby became wet and slippery and someone fell before housekeeping set up an army of mop brigadeers. This is the first time since I started visiting Cannes in 2000 that I have seen it rain to this extent. The Mediterranean is choppy and there are waves that you can surf like the North Shore of Honolulu, Hawaii, but there are no suffers. It actually looks rather scary. The waves are covering the beaches.
This however did not stop the red carpet from continuing. The screening of Amour starring Jean-Louis Trintignant carried on without a hitch. I saw some of the gowns as they walked through the Carleton Lobby to the waiting cars to be driven to the Palais. Nothing stops the red carpet.
We were all planning to attend the Women in Film Reception at the International Pavilion, but was too wary of venturing out to the beach pavilions in the rain. So we made a party of it in the Carleton Lounge. The street vendors made a killing selling umbrellas today, and the restaurants and bars made a killing feeding and drinking everyone who wanted out of the rain.
Here's to tomorrow and Day 6, with the hope that the rain finds it way to a much needier territory. Cannes doesn't need anymore rain.
