Mary McNamara: Yes, the Cannes Film Festival is super glamorous, but it’s also completely exhausting
When you tell someone you are going to the Cannes Film Festival, they are inevitably, and often quite vocally, envious. “Oh my gosh, can I come too?” All those amazing films, parties, movie stars, fashion icons — not to mention the French Riviera — it’s so cool, so glamorous, so exciting.
And it is all of those things, sometimes, and sometimes it’s exhausting, frustrating, baffling and overwhelming.
One minute, your heart and mind are overthrown by a life-changing film, a miraculous performance or the radiant energy of brilliant people talking passionately about their art.
The next you’re nearly sobbing with
