Cannes programmers have made it damn near impossible to score press tickets to (a) Spike Lee‘s Highest 2 Lowest, which screens on Monday evening, 5.20 and on Tuesday, 5.21, and (b) Kristen Stewart‘s The Chronology of Water, which I tried to get into this evening on a last-minute, wait-and-hope basis.
This morning at 7 am I tried to reserve a ticket to Spike’s Kurosawa remake, but the app said it was ALL filled up. But how could it be at 7 am? You come all the way here at great expense, and Spike’s film is off limits?
I wrote Cinetic marketing about this…silencio.
Word around the campfire is that Stewart’s reps, friends and associates had gobbled up around half of the orchestra seats to tonight’s Water screening, although I know nothing for an absolute solid fact in this regard.
The general idea seems to be “limit press seating and perhaps minimize the effect of so-so or adverse reactions”…maybe.
This suggests that both films may be problematic on some level, but who knows?
