Where the Techies Will Hang Out at Cannes
Yes, you absolutely can find fresh places to eat, sleep and network at Cannes, whether you’re headed for this week’s film festival or the ads-and-tech jamboree.
France’s most famous meet-and-greet resort has downed a triple espresso martini. Over the past 12 months, Cannes has been upgraded with enough new clubs, bars and hotels to satiate all the celebrities, movie moguls, global creatives and CEOs jetting in for the Cannes film festival happening right now, followed by the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the media and advertising fete that starts next month.
And while the old place has gotten a great number of fancy new additions, the ambience remains as laissez faire as it was in the era when John F. Kennedy and Pablo Picasso sailed in for lunch. The scene is also just as top-notch and powerful when you look around these days: Picture a Gulf royal strolling by as Brie Larson sips espresso at a table next to Shari Redstone trying to cut another doomed deal. In Cannes, you can air-kiss everyone who’s anyone in the world.