Commotion in Cannes leatherette ‘man’s bag’ – AD.nl

By: Ab Zagt
13-5-15 – 18:01 © Ab Zagt.

column Film Journalist Ab Zagt knows all about the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, which is held annually in the third week of May. In his columns Ab gives a glimpse into his life before, during and after Cannes.

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,, I’m not going along the streets, ” monkelt a Dutch colleague after he checked himself at the accreditation desk at the Cannes Film Festival. In addition to the coveted badge every journalist gets a bag of the festival with full of papers, watch schemes and various catalogs. This year it’s a kind of glorified toiletry indeterminate blue skaileer. Opinions are divided on.

Another film journalist talks about a super hip, blue water ‘man’s bag. It remains a matter of taste. The ‘man’s bag’ will not leave my hotel room. Over 5,000 journalists walk here with the same bag around Cannes which can lead to all sorts of risks. Imagine sitting in the cinema hall and arrested by mistake in the dark with the bag of your neighbor. Later you discover that – looking for your recording device for an interview – you have become the happy owner of a notebook with Japanese notes, an unused tampon and a shopping list for the Monoprix, the local supermarket where every journalist does his shopping.

To reduce the risk of swapping bags I use this year an ugly, laminated bag of the Berlin festival that hopefully no one took. No such luck. Yesterday, in the first row of a colleague before me who had had the same idea. The man I’m going to avoid the coming days. Apart from the blue monster, I also came into possession of a ugliest t-shirt Cannes festival gift of the French film magazine Premiere. It is a black, cheap shirt with the text Fuck it dude and seven bowling pin down which one is bowled. A child knows that this refers to The Big Lebowski. Above are shown the minds of Joel and Ethan Coen, the directors who this year make up the two-man jury.

Today the jury at Cannes gives his credentials off during the traditional press conference. Generally provides that nothing on. Vague whining about what criteria are going to be used in awarding the Palme. And the Coens do you expect nothing at all. The brothers rarely say anything about openhartigs their own films, let alone stand the work of others.