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You’re Not Going to Cannes, But You Can Play the Cannes Board Game
Play through the frustration and triumph of financing a genre film from the decidedly non-glamorous comfort of your living room.
The tone of its unhelpful rule book is cheeky, taunting: “Maybe this year you’ll make it big … nominations are due to be published any day now, and hey, who knows, maybe you will finally get that Oscar or Palme d’Or you deserve. My own version of an old boys’ network — my group chat of female film professionals who all live near one another in New York — tipped me off to the game, dropping it into conversation somewhere between dissing the new Harmony Korine and scheming about plus-ones for a MoMA party. With wheat fields and woodlands replaced by beer steins and printer paper, Cannes is a highfalutin version of survival, though it hasn’t yet evolved past cell phones with antennae.
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