POSTED: June 26, 2009 12:16 |
By: Cameron Bailey
It's on. This week Piers Handling and I set out on our last screening trip of the year. this week we're in Paris at the Unifrance offices watching everything French cinema has to offer. On the weekend I go to Brussels and Piers to Warsaw to catch up on what's being made there. We meet up again in London next week for UK screenings that the British Council organizes for us. From there Piers goes to Rome and I go to Munich and Mumbai.
Sounds like a great world tour but we're in screening rooms for 10 or 12 hours every day for nearly three weeks, watching film after film after film. After film. It's hard to tell people that watching movies for a living is hard work, but at times like this it is. Turns out that juggling daily crises six time zones away while trying to concentrate on the subtleties of the latest French masterpiece on screen in front of you takes a bit of effort. But that's the gig.
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