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Turning 35 in Cannes

What’s it like for a film lover to celebrate their birthday at a film festival?

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Max Borg
May 18, 2024
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By the time you read this, I will have turned 35, and begun my birthday with the world premiere of The Surfer, starring Nicolas Cage. That film is the second of four Midnight Screenings at the Cannes Film Festival, where I’ve been celebrating getting older almost every year since 2017 (the festival didn’t take place in 2020, and was moved to July in 2021, for obvious reasons).

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