“I can’t really account for it, and I still feel it when I go [to the Cannes Film Festival,” Toronto-based director Atom Egoyan tells Toronto Star critic Geoff Pevere . “I know the [festival] like the back of my hand, and yet there’s a degree of consecration which is peculiar and distinct and quite impossible to really describe.”
![](/images/column/51706/cannesmarty.jpg)
![](https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/wp-content/themes/amory/patreon-banner.jpg)