The DaVinci Code

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Originally Posted by grady

what is your brother doing at the festival? Is he working it or seeing films there? I'd love to be there and see a few films there myself.

he's doing both, actually.

his job is to buy movierights for a film distributor that he works for. i've heard that deals can go up to several hundreds of thousands of euros... the bidding gets quite crazy. the bigger the movie is (buzzwise) the higher the price naturally.

other than that he sees as much movies as possible during the festival, approximately six-seven per day. the company he works for focuses mostly on independent art-house films, so he sees a lot of stuff i've never even read about. it's quite taxing from what i've heard (tons of movies to see every day + tons of drinking in different parties) but he's not complaining... only worried that his liver will pop some day due to too much drinking, which seems to be mandatory there.

and when he's off from cannes there's other festivals to catch later on like milan, berlin, toronto etc. the bastard!


p.s. i'll try to see arrested development a bit better some day if i can.