After 12 days of crowds, actors, paparazzi, and all sort of film workers, Cannes has woken up this morning quieter and once is cleaned up, ready to welcome anyone for a stroll along the Croissette. It was a quieter and perhaps less glamorous 62nd film festival that gave the Palme d’Or appropriately to a master of the disturbing, bleak and depressing films, the Austrian director Michael Heneke for his black-and-white film The White Ribbon about a children’s choir in a northern German village, set on the eve of the First World War. The French-English actress Charlotte Gainsbourg won the actress prize for her performance as a grieving mother in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, while the Austrian actor Christoph Waltz received the Best Actor prize for his role in Tarantino’s film Inglourious Basterds. A little further to the east, Monaco is as well recovering its normal face after the exciting Sunday of its Formula 1. All this means a normal day in the principality perhaps relaxing at an outdoor café while you prepare what to visit in the next days. Plenty of things in the Riviera, from the ‘hanging villages’ in the hills around Monaco and Menton, with breathtaking views to the Matisse, Chagall museums in Nice, there is always something to keep you going and put aside all the worries that surround our world. From time to time is almost necessary to do so.
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