20 Problems Only Cannes Film Festival Attendees Will Understand

20. Literally Seeing More Incest & Sexual Abuse Than You'd Ever Want To

There's very much an unwritten rule of Cannes - and particularly the Un Certain Regard secondary competition - that arty means exactly the same as mentally scarring. 

Provocative imagery and gratuitous, and often extremely difficult to watch sexual elements replace actual creativity and all of a sudden you're painfully aware that you're sitting in a room with thousands of strangers watching something even perverts would delete from their browser history.

Yes, there are the true cinephile moments - like the critics all crying as one to the Up opening sequence, or the tide of appreciation that met The Artist - but you have to sit through some serious clouds to get there.