Plenty more frogs across the pond, plenty more fish in the sea, and many ways to get to France and the Cannes Film Festival without any money,friends or a man. Just my imagination and my dreams.
Firstly merci to all the lucky people in Cannes who kept me up-to date with all your tweets and blogs, sometimes I felt like I was there...then I would wake up from my daydreams and be more determined to make it to the next one in 2012 and to watch more films from this year’s festival than the three I watched from last years., especially The Artist and We Need To Talk About Kevin.
So last year I watched some of my favourite actors walk the red carpet (Javier Bardem and Benicio del Toro) and some of my favourite fashion icons (Charlotte Gainsbourg and Diane Kruger). This year my eyes are hurting from being glued to the Internet or France24 news channel, I feel a few days break from technology is needed.
Cannes 2010
Ok enough about the past, what about now? Who’s been avoiding me - Jack Black, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, Owen Wilson, Jude Law, Gilles Lellouche, Tahar Rahim and Antonio Banderas to name but a few of my favourites, but I will see you all next year boys, bloggers and twitter users.
So I continue on my quest of all things French and hope to see you all IN Cannes in May 2012.
Moi? Only 3! Terrible I know, and out of these three only one was in the competition - Biutiful with Javier Bardem - he deserved his Best Actor award and he should of won a few more.
The other Cannes 2010 films I saw was Robin Hood with Russell Crowe and his bizarre accent, I gave it 3 stars out of 5, losing one star for the accent and another for the fast action scenes, I didn’t think they were merde, they just gave me terrible eye strain has I was sitting in the third row. No need to pay extra for 3D just sit close to the screen instead. The third film I saw was Wall Street - Money Never Sleeps 2 out of 5 stars, it lost 2 stars because I feel asleep thought the first Wall Street film the night before so some bits I didn’t get.
There is only one small cinema (that I know of) that shows indie and foreign films in Boredville -The Mac (macarts.co.uk). It’s a hour’s drive away so My Movie Mate and I try and put a little bit of culture into our lives at least once a month but still only managed to watch Biutiful. Here in Boredville there are loads of big multiplex mega screen cinemas which all show the same films - big budget Hollywood ones. Which is good , I love a good action film full of explosions, car chases , blood and gore, or after a crappy day stuck in the office a comedy preferring boys toilet humour like the Hangover and Hall Pass to romantic comedies, because seriously when you’re trying to move on from someone you love watching a rom-com is not the way forward.
Romantic comedy formula:
Ordinary girl (gorgeous fit Hollywood actress wears glasses) meets hot boy.
Hot boy doesn’t notice or like her
She has a make over (removes glasses) and now looks hot.
Hot boy now wants to be with her and they live happy ever after.
Yeah right like that’s going to happen in Boredville, I need to stop feeling sorry for myself and get out there.
I want to be comfortable in my own skin, but after my fitness class this week, comfortable is the last word I would use to describe my body. My legs hurt like hell, no pain no gain is more a English point of view than a European one I think. During this hour of squatting, sit-ups and other forms of torture, my mind started to wonder to the other side of the English Channel again.
More ways to get to Cannes - exercise related. 8.Walk: Calais - Cannes do it for Charity and get sponsored - Everyone’s a winner!! Apart from my feet. 9. Cycle to Cannes : I did find http://www.cycle2cannes.org .....mmmm maybe next year.
Ok I would be lying if I said Frenchmen were not a big factor in my love of France, and I took these comments about me being fat and ugly to heart and after crying in my pillow for a week, I went on a fitness regime. The wrong attitude to take at the time but maybe it was the kick up my fat backside I needed to start taking care of myself and my love of food is stronger than their comments so there was no chance of me developing an eating disorder. Now I work out (and moan about it) and eat healthy (most of the time) for myself not for anyone else.
I begged to differ with these views. Ok He is right with the ugly point but the fat issue - NON! I’m 35, a size 10, I weigh 55kg and I have a Wii-fit body age 27 today (ok couldn’t really believe the Wii - last weekend my Wii- age was 49!) . The past two months have been crazy starting a new job, controlling my feelings for Monsieur X and living on microwave meals for a month while waiting for the new kitchen to be installed. So I have lost 6kgs already and I don’t need to lose anymore weight but toning up would help.
But that will be after this weekend of oeufs en chocolat! lol
My mind is wondering - part 2 10. Actually go to the gym instead of looking at my gym membership card thinking ‘I should go’. So that: 11. I look and feel good so that another Frenchman might invite me to Cannes.
I’m drifting off into bizarre world - give me CHOCOLAT!!! FEED THE MACHINE!!
