Cannes Film Festival LAST DAY

Today was the last day, and it felt really weird that it's just over now. I woke up to get in line to see The Traitor, which was this really entertaining film about the Cosa Nostra bust in the '80s, one of the largest mafia arrests in Italian history. Honestly, it was just a fun movie, nothing really more to it than that, but I had a great time watching it.

After that we had to go straight to the line for Portrait of a Lady on Fire (seriously though, where did all of these random people come from for the last three days? You had to get to every movie at least two hours in advance to have any hope of getting in), which was amazing. So happy I got to see it here, it was one of the top films I wanted to see.

We came back to JLP for dinner and then went back to Cannes for the last movie on the beach. It was a movie about Jim Morrison (and The Doors but mostly him), and it was definitely an interesting approach to his life. I appreciated that it was not glorifying him at all, but it was still an odd film to watch. Afterwards, we literally sprinted from the beach to catch the last train at 11:54 (it was 11:50 when we left), and even though it was not without complications we made the train. It definitely made for a memorable last night.

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