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King of Cannes: Madness, Mayhem, and the Movies

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A neurotic British filmmaker recounts his up-and-down journey to Cannes as he tries to film a documentary about the legendary French film festival. Reprint.

262 pages, Paperback

First published June 3, 1999

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Stephen Walker

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July 28, 2020
Very funny, fly-on-the-wall incompetence in Cannes. Loved it.
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April 30, 2012
Picked up from a library book sale last year.
I laughed a lot reading this book though frequently it was due to the craziness of it all. I know very little about Cannes or film festivals in general so I guess I learnt something too.

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February 8, 2014
I never thought a book about making a documentary about the Cannes film festival could actually be laugh out loud funny. Boy was I wrong. A must for cinephiles and aspiring filmmakers as well as anyone curious about how the festival system really works.
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July 1, 2020
Outstanding. Read it all in a day and was my favorite book for a very long time
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