20 Problems Only Cannes Film Festival Attendees Will Understand

No matter how much a film has been booed - and that's far more often than any actual appreciation from the industry commenters - in a critics' screening, you can bet your bottom dollar that as soon as the film-maker or the actor who was so roundly abused is in residence of the screening, the audience will turn entirely.

In those premiere screenings, where talents rub shoulders with the general public (and some critics who didn't get up early enough to catch their designated show) people literally fall over themselves to shower the stars with adoration. Without so much as an ounce of self-awareness, or acknowledgement that what they've just watched won't even qualify for 0% on the Tomatometer.