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Yesterday afternoon's event was not quite the glitzy raucous party that one might assume should come out of a "Morning After" report, but it was so nice, it deserves the attention. Cannes Mayor, Bernard Brochand (also a member of France's parliament), pictured standing on the far right, hosted a fab lunch atop Cannes at the Musee de la Castre for international press, and the Festival de Cannes jury.

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Wednesday night's going out scene was all about finding an invitation to the "Sin City" party in Cannes, at least if you were not at some hush-hush non-invite party at a private villa or yacht. To make a long story short, we walked out to the Palm Beach casino at the end of the Croisette (actually quite a pleasant stroll) and made it into the party. We luckily had our names on the list, and the person checking names said we were, in fact, the first people he had looked up and had actually found names. Phew! We're in... At first glance, we thought, "well, it looks better then the 'Star Wars' party." Well friends, it wasn't...

indieWIRE Editor Brian Brooks has been snapping memorable moments from the parties that dominated the first half of the Cannes Film Festival. His first round of shots are available now on indieWIRE.com.

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Monday night was definitely a promising one party-wise. There was a New Line event in the early evening for "The History of Violence" and there was a Brazilian bash at a villa in the hills (for the film Cidade Baixa) in addition to another villa party for German Cinema. Alas, we headed over to the hotel to drop off computers, and fell asleep, awaking at 10:30 p.m. and -- gasp! It screwed our night. Well, not screwed exactly, but our ambitious party plans were altered.

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Alright, it isn't quite the morning, but it is nevertheless the day after last night's world premiere of "Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith." The build-up to the premiere was quite spectacular. As mentioned elsewhere in indieWIRE, the Cannes planners did a tremendous job building the tension outside the Palais where huge throngs of people were waiting to watch the red carpet arrival of all their "Star Wars" favorites.

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Partying got serious Saturday, beginning in the evening with a cocktail party for the newly branded distributor Picturehouse on the Majestic pier right off the Croisette. Then, it was the Canadian reception at the Canada Pavilion (go figure) with directors Atom Egoyan, David Cronenberg and Stu Samuels. The party was nice (can't beat anything right on the sand of the Med) but the event was a bit marred by this asshole photographer from a well-known major photo company (I'm witholding the name of the group because we normally really get along with everyone there, so I don't want to implicate all the other cool people at the company) who was trying to stop everyone...

"Last Days" star Michael Pitt showed off his other talent as a lead singer/guitarist during the party for the film in Cannes Friday night following the gala premiere (with actor Ryan Donowho on drums). Party attendees, including Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon (who also stars in the film) bobbed to the grungesque set, including Pitt's "Birth to Death," which he wrote and is also featured in the film. Also in attendance was "Last Days" director Gus Van Sant, who kind of hung low at the party. He's not quite the attention whore...

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