Though not for lack of trying, I haven’t seen a film worth really writing about in days. This afternoon I check out Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, about which I’ve heard good things; before I leave I’ll attempt to see the Competition entries from Gaspar Noe, Tsai Ming-Liang and Isabel Coixet. But the end of Cannes 2009 is definitely in sight. The market wraps up today, and the crowds are both thinning and wearing out. I arrived at this morning’s screening of Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 90 minutes early to find nothing like a crowd in wait; when I walked out of the film after 40 minutes because my eyes ached from rolling so much, it looked like everyone in my half-full row was asleep.

So in lieu of reviews, here’s some gossip and other notes on the past few days:

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