Not a lot of consensus about the offerings at Cannes this year except for this: many of the films are too long. “It’s like that old joke, I didn’t have time to write a short speech, so I wrote a long speech,” filmmaker Brian de Palma said here last week, commenting on the increasing length of movies. “If you’re not sure what you want to say, it takes longer to say it.” – National Post (Canada) 05/19/00