Fin

Two final reflections before I leave this blog....

I'm not sure why so many native French speakers came up to me asking for directions. perhaps it's that grey hair.... But I must admit to a certain enjoyment at being able to say: Je ne parle pas francais -- if only for the slightly surreal quality of telling someone you don't speak their language, in their language.

And a story which says more about me than I probably should be telling: midway through the event, the Producer tells me -- "We just got an email. It looks like we're in the International Thai Film Festival."

"That's great. I was hoping we'd finally get in international competition."

"Hugh," she said. "We're sitting in the south of France!"

"Yeah, but we're not in formal competition. THIS will be formal competition."

Ca va? Ca va.