The Circuit

“We kept telling ourselves and were being told by everyone else what a weak Cannes this has been,” Michael Barker, co-president of Sony Classics, wrote in an e-mail message, “until we woke up one morning and realized that this could shape up to be the best Cannes we ever had. The sleepless nights this year did not come from the parties; they came from debate over merits of films (with colleagues, journalists, exhibitors, people on the street) and images from the films themselves that we could not shake.”