Cannes Film Festival hampered by ticket headaches, travel woes – The Hollywood Reporter
The streets around the Hotel Martinez were packed with fans on a scorching hot Wednesday. Eva Longoria, an ambassador for L’Oreal, made a glamorous lunchtime appearance watched by photographers wearing a vibrant orange Victoria Beckham gown.
Minutes later, an exasperated power worker was texting frantically on the sidewalk away, trying to secure a set of clothes to wear to the Palais premiere that same evening. The agent’s baggage was misplaced in transit, another example of a drama that has upset countless festival-goers.
It’s the Cannes rivalry – the glitz and glamor of extreme tension – on full display during the festival’s 75th.order version. The most pressing annoyance by far, however, is the issue of ticket sales. The festival’s online ticketing portal has become a hot issue, due to server problems all week. The film was revealed on its opening Tuesday when the press website repeatedly timed out and completely crashed.
Fest officials released a statement, linking technical difficulties to the bot and blaming “acts intended to saturate the site with ticket requests, thereby preventing festival-goers from accessing access it.” Officials worked to fix the problem, eventually releasing a new link to press. On Wednesday, however, more than a hundred festival-goers were spotted queuing up in a hallway of the Palais trying to access the festival’s computer, which was, at the time, the only way to shop. ticket.
“I hope they find a way to make the system work as well as it always has,” said Picturehouse CEO Jeanne Berney. CHEAP, confirmed that she and company CEO Bob Berney battled the system. “Especially now entering the modern age.”
Tickets aren’t Berney’s only concern this week. “This was our first dinner in Cannes, and we sat outside on the sidewalk. I put my bag on the back of my chair, and as we left, [my phone] disappeared,” she revealed about the theft, which she never experienced while attending the festival. “I tracked it down, and it was somewhere on the highway outside of town. I should be more careful. ”
Prudence cannot prevent other woes this week. Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Helen Hoehne is said to have been experiencing major travel problems, as were countless festival-goers who flew in from New York, where there was a major storm earlier in the week. this.
One CHEAP The critic’s train from Paris to Cannes is scheduled to arrive at 4:30 p.m. Monday. But at 3:30 p.m., during a stop in Toulon, the conductor announced there would be “indefinite delays” due to problems on the tracks preventing the train from continuing on.
Upon hearing that the delay could last nearly five hours, travelers rushed for exits, frantically searching for taxis and rental cars or connecting with ride-sharing apps, some the app charges more than 300$. In a strange turn of events, after many people had secured transportation, technical problems were resolved and the ship continued its journey, arriving at Cannes about 80 minutes after its original arrival time.
Claudia Pacella, a designer of cashmere brand UAVI Republic, went to Cannes to join the DPA’s luxury Cannes gift room, but her luggage did not. “I had to write all my business cards by hand. It’s not normal, but it’s possible,” she said of navigating away without her belongings for three days. “I heard it’s very common these days because airports and airlines are having staffing issues due to the pandemic. People seem very stressed these days.”
