There was a lot of expectation that this would be something remarkable – and it was,” she says. “I don’t remember anything but really enthusiastic applause.
She was inside the Palais des Festivals, as a senior writer for Entertainment Weekly, for what turned out to be a joyous screening. “That would have been 8:30 in the morning,” recalls film critic Anne Thompson. But another seismic event took place early one morning on the French Riviera when Quentin Tarantino’s crime drama Pulp Fiction was screened for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival. In May 1994 Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa’s first black president and the Channel Tunnel linking England and France finally opened.
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