Cannes 2012 diary: day eight

Just as they were in danger of nodding off, Cannes delegates are hit with an inexplicable big bang of a movie. Do not adjust your specs …By this stage of the Cannes competition, the delegates have seen too much and sat too long. They have consorted with pre-teen runaways and bare-knuckle boxers, revelled with sex tourists and bootleggers, dying music teachers and Japanese escorts. Their gaze has glazed and their palates gone jaded. What they need is an electric shock to make them jump from the...

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