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“I had no idea who I was talking to at the Cannes Film Festival”

“Turns out… everyone else did”

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Geoff Talbot
Apr 14, 2026
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I was at the Cannes Film Festival, and I had been drinking

With my strong Baptist roots, I was a cheap drunk.

It took just a couple of vodka shots to loosen me up.

As I looked out onto the balcony, I saw that the room was made of money.

It was 2008, and I was at the New Zealand film commission's Cannes Party that overlooked the Croisette and the southern Me…

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