The Great Gatsby opened the Cannes Festival, as Luhrmann controlled the narrative with his usual calculated aplomb through the press conference. This is Gatsby le magnifique in action…
How did the press screening of The Great Gatsby go in Cannes? According to Tara Judah, one of our correspondents at Cannes, it is pretty hard to tell. She emailed that “it is so hard to gauge the response, everyone leaves immediately to rush off & join the press conference queue! But I suspect mixed responses… “