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"The 20th anniversary of the publication of [Roger] Ebert''s Two Weeks in the Midday Sun: A Cannes Notebook - perhaps the best book ever written about experiencing the Cannes Film Festival - gives us an excellent occasion to revisit this classic and consider just how the Cannes of today has changed, or failed to change, since the 1980s," writes Kenneth T Rivers in a timely piece for the new issue of Bright Lights Film Journal (in which editor Gary Morris suggests that something big and, above all, bright is in the works, details of which are to be divulged shortly).

"The harshest thing the French have to say about themselves is that they aren''t serious," writes Alan Vanneman in a close reading - and reconsideration - of a classic that no longer bowls him over. "The Revolution, after all, which a number of French still like to believe was the most important event in human history, which was supposed to change everything, actually changed nothing. If the Revolution didn''t matter, how can anything matter? In The Rules of the Game, Renoir satirizes this languor, but ultimately doesn''t escape it".



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