I’m on the train from Paris to Cannes to attend the Cannes Film Festival for the first time. I haven’t arrived yet but so far going to Cannes has meant a whirlwind of preparation: joining many WhatsApp threads from the various colleagues I know who are attending and mostly texting outfit photos and repeatedly reconfirming the red carpet dress code, hitting refresh a million times on the festival’s overwhelmed and unreliable online ticketing website (rumor has it, hackers are to blame!) desperate to book tickets to films before they sell out, switching my Google calendar between PDT and CEST as […]