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I may not always be right, but I never will.

Hello and welcome to Maximum Film, Episode 446.

I'm your host, Kevin Avery, and joining me as always.

He's a brilliant film critic and an author, four-time Christmas Zaddy Award winner. Please welcome Alonzo

Dorale. What's good? Well, Kevin, you know, it is the time of year where, for some folks,

anyway, they are gearing up for the Cannes Film Festival that's coming up in May.

And it's not something I generally pay a lot of attention to, but we're starting to see the graphics, the posters that they're going to put out to promote different parts of the festival.

And usually I'm not super on top of this, but I couldn't help notice this year.

The, there's a section of the festival called the Critics'Fortnight,

the Kanzand de Sineas, I think is how they say it, in French.

And they commissioned a poster from filmmaker Alan Giraudi,

who made Stranger by the Lake, who made Misericordia. He is a bold filmmaker and has a puckish sense of humor and also like real gay. So the poster that he made for the

Critics Fortnite is literally a like naked, bearish dude standing in the middle of the forest

with like a big yellow flower covering

his junk. And I'm like, okay, Cannes Film Festival. Let's do it. This is what you get when

you hire The Stranger by the Lake Guy to make your poster. So, you know, it's a vivid image.

And I encourage people to Google it because this is not your grandfather's can film festival.

I saw that image and genuinely thought it was like fan art.

Like it was this like, can you imagine what kind of poster would have been made?

Well, Dave White immediately asked the question, so did Alan Giridie go to lazy bear?

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