It was a treat to be back on The Screen Podcast, alongside editor Matt Mueller, to talk about some of the early highlights (and misfires) from this year's Cannes. You can check out the conversation down below.
The opening night film at this year's Cannes, The Electric Kiss (La Vénus électrique), ends with "Venus," because of course. I've had it rattling around in my head ever since.
Dig that Herbie Hancock sample, everybody.
I'm delighted that, after all this time, I still discover songs and albums Susan loved before we were dating. Everything but the Girl's first record, 1984's Eden, was a big one for her at a certain time in her life. The opening track, and fairly big single, "Each and Every One" sounds like a breakup song. But Tracey Thorn revealed in 2023 that it was about something else:
I’d been in the Marine Girls. We were three naive school girls making indie music, and we got a bit more attention than we might have expected. We got written about in the music press, but often in a patronizing tone of voice. When I got a year or so older, I looked at it and thought, “I used to think that was a compliment, but actually it’s quite patronizing.” I expressed those feelings in a slightly coded way in “Each and Every One,” so people have always interpreted it as a love song. It sounds like I’m singing to an annoying boyfriend or something. And it doesn’t matter, in a way—what comes through is a sentiment of, “I don’t like being told what to do. I don’t like to be put in my place.”