20 Problems Only Cannes Film Festival Attendees Will Understand

Fair enough if a film is terrible, you should probably voice your concerns about it. As film reviewers, the majority of the attendees are uniquely qualified to do so, but instead they take it upon themselves to make farmyard noises as loudly as possible at the end credits (if they stayed to boo).

But the thing is, it's not just bad films that get the treatment. The audience in Cannes takes it upon themselves to be judge, jury and executioner, judging future classics like Pulp Fiction against some imaginary Cannes Gauge. If it's not Cannes enough, it's going to get booed. Or if it's too Cannes, but it's made by a recognisable director, it's also going to get booed.

Pick any film ever, and there's a good chance if it screened in Cannes it got booed by at least one person.

As it happens, booing in French is a beast of its own kind: they prefer to "woooo" than to "boooo", which is curiously jarring, giving off a weird fairground feel.