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"A Festival Wife" is a romantic thriller that takes place in the world of film festivals. A roman a clef, it contains characters, both real and disguised, who come together at the fictional San Lorenzo International Film Festival, a composite of many real festivals. Anyone who has been to Cannes and the global film markets will find the characters recognizable and the story intriguing – even controversial.
The online published novel is serialized in weekly episodes exclusively for fest21.com and filmfestivals.com readers.


The complete novel A Festival Wife is now available in ebook format on Mobipocket.com for only $9,99.


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Message sent by ballon to the world from Cannes

We are sending the following message via "balloon" at 6 from the croisette during the festival organizers reception held at Village International 

Dear finder of this message !

The following text is the final chapter of a "Festival Thriller", which we have just published on our website fest21.com

We have released this message to the world via balloon...may 21st at 6.00pm from the Cannes Film Festival hotspot on the Croisette.

Attending the launch were 50 festival directors from around the world who personally wish you good luck with the reading.

Please email us at bruno@filmfestivals.com to let us know your information, where you found it...and we will send you the whole ebook and a signed copy of the art.

 

Cher vous qui venez de trouver notre message!

Vous venez de trouver ce message du Festival de Cannes accompagné des vœux de 50 directeurs de festivals de film (du monde entier) qui vous sont personnellement adressés.

Le texte ci-dessous est le dernier chapitre d'un thriller sur fonds de festival intitulé « A festival Wife » de Rex Weiner. Son livre a été publié sur http://www.fest21.com/en/a_festival_wife

Ecrivez nous si vous avez trouvé ce message envoyé par « ballon » depuis la croisette le 21 mai à 18h (bruno@filmfestivals.com) vous recevrez un exemplaire signé de l'illustration de Nesta Morgan et un ebook.

 

 A Festival Wife by Rex Weiner, Chapter 12 – The Bloody Reel
Illustrated by Nesta Morgan

 

 

 

 

 

Scenario:

“Count Pietro Rassi’s “go with a dream”…  From Antigua to Zanzibar. (and Cannes in this case) Look the tide is out… Come, I’ll show you something Three small boys were poking a stick into a crevice. They had cornered a crab and were gleefully bedeviling the hapless crustacean as it fought off it’s attackers with futile claws… Rassi commented… I used to come here when I was their age collecting shells on the beach, poking at sea urchins with a stick in the tide pools… in the burnished light of the late Ligurian afternoons. Rassi was the very soul of the place.He told me that the future would be wonderful, a new age with machines doing all the work… imagine the world in a new age like that Dusk was gathering in the corners of the sky.Fairy lights, fishing boats and fancy yachts transiting the darkness over the bay. A chilly wind was sweeping off San Lorenzo, the flannel sky, the yellow sand, fruit stalls, moonlight at the corner of the sky, the route to the  Castello, the colors and aromas, strangely soothing… the mountains of melons behind Rassi – surely they would topple over and someone would get hurt. This was simply my overactive imagination. Cog upon cog. The Journalist wheel… A nice embellishment was the diagram tracing the flow of money from one little box to another, at one end was a box labeled “munitions manufacturers”, at the other was “Hollywood” and in the middle was “Luxembourg Tax Deal” and “Safta Brothers”. Blood sacrifice in black and white on newsprint… SOLD. So the comedy is re-enacted in the dark, played out on the wide screen of our dreams, this frantic, naïve reaching for the brilliant, shining denouement that has already, to scattered applause, come and gone. Cannes, perhaps, or maybe Venice or Berlin From festival wife to wife all year round… A chaperone… she met his gaze for a moment, then looked away… his hands gripped.For the first time since he was a boy.
The End. 

"If you have enjoyed reading A Festival Wife, please address your comments, questions and offers of a free cocktail to the author at rexweiner@gmail.com"

 

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21.05.2009 | A Festival Wife's blog

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