Chp 50 : Cannes Film Festival?

Al finally found his guide slash driver from a crowd of people that held a signboard filled with various types of names. He introduced himself as Louis, and he looks French... well he is French.

Louis was glad after hearing Al could speak French, although he could speak English, his vocabulary is so bad. That's what confused Al, most of the guides here are the same as Louis in terms of English proficiency. They are a tourist guide for Pete's sake, at least improve your English, not everyone in the world could speak French.

European people and their pride, although the same could be said to traditional American people.

After he found the guide, he went back to see his family and friends and told them that the bus is ready.

Liam Neeson, the other cast, and film crews will come here separately by tomorrow. Of course, all of it would be paid for by Muspelheim Films. As for Al's family and his friend, Al used his private funds.

They will stay at Martinez' Art Deco Hotel, one of the most luxurious hotels in Cannes. It cost a fortune to rent a room here, so just directly rent a deluxe room and made it like a slumber party.

Boys with boys and girls with girls. As for Mrs. K and Mary will be sharing a room.

When the girls entered their room, they were surprised that this room was not like what they imagined.

It's so damn luxurious! This is not a hotel room, this is a penthouse! Al rented a penthouse for them! It got at least 5 rooms inside, a giant TV screen, a living room, a grand piano? A private hot tub in the middle of the room.

Because it was the first floor, they also got direct access to the beach and swimming pool.

After some discussion, they decided to pair the room as follows: Robin x Ione, Drew x Annie, Laura x Alice, and Melissa x Jessica.

John Mick and Jason Barnes will sleep with the boys.

Inside the boys' room.

"I'm not dreaming right? I'm not freaking dreaming right? Max, slap me please!" (Slap) Max was really slapped by Anthony in the face.

"Bruh, it's just a metaphor bruh! You don't have to hit me for real!" Anthony complained.

"I do as you said!" Max argued.

"Al, how much these shits cost dude?" Anthony turned to face Al.

"I don't know. Ask my assistant Jessica and my financial advisor Nancy, at least it won't make me bankrupt." He shrugged.

"So Al, tell me that chick you met before, you may hide it from us but I saw you talk to that chick. She's 9/10." Anthony said and let himself fell into the luxurious sofa.

"That's Sophie Marceau, the French's Rose. She plays in some French movies." Al came to approach the fridge and tried to search for some drinks.

River then said, "Ah I know her! They said she is going to be Isabella Adjani's successor right?"

"Yes she is, unfortunately, she just married in the early year, it's too late for me. Okay then, let's determine who will sleep with who. John Mick and Jason already in pair so let's determine it with a stick!"

After the stick games, the order of their pairings is Max x River, Anthony x Jon, Al x Toby.

Then they are going to the hotel's lobby to meet up with girls and explore Cannes together, especially the beach. The boys can't wait to see the European beauties in a minimum outfit.

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8th May 1985, Palais des Festivals et des Congrés.

The red carpet was also a must for every film festival or premiere, but the French people may take it too far.

Al could see the European and American beauties showed their body parts and being photographed by the French and other country's journalist and paparazzi.

Al even saw a French supermodel who lie down on the red carpet, some extreme outfit that shows a blurry image of her nipples and camel toe, and weird fashion design that made him speechless.

He met with Liam Neeson, Sandra Bullock, and the rest of the crews this morning. But because they are still unpopular, they didn't receive any invitation to walk on red carpets.

For Al, with Spielberg's help and also the quality of his film, Al got the news that his film will be joining the competition with other 19 films, as for the rest of the 27 others they only get a recognition to be screened in Cannes Film Festivals.

Of course, as the most famous boy in the USA, Al got a chance to walk on the red carpets and bring someone as his partner.

Mrs. K, Mary, and Jessica rejected his invitation, the girls like Laura, Drew and others who were having too much fun in their king's size room also rejected his invitation. That wounded Al's pride as the best big brother in the world ever.

So he just sent an invitation to Sandra Bullock and fortunately, she accepted it, and now he is walking on the red carpet with Sandra holding his arm.

"Thank you so much Al for inviting me." She smiled while looking at him.

"It's my pleasure Sandy, though you must be disappointed that you are my last choice." He liked how cheerful Sandra is and having so much energy to screw around with everyone else.

"Nonsense, it would be my honor to accompany you here!" She said while swinging his arm that she was holding.

A lot of American reporters and paparazzi finally saw that Alphonse Brandt is walking on the red carpet with a partner and made the red carpet atmosphere more heated.

At first, they were confused about how and why Alphonse was coming here, but they decided to ignore this and focused on Al and his partner who walked on the red carpet together.

"Mr. Brandt! Are you here because you are playing in one of the films that competing tonight?" A blonde male reporter asked him.

"No, I'm here because the film I directed will join the competition and I hope all of you could watch it." He answered the reporter's question with a polite tone.

The reporters and paparazzi were all shocked. It's just that this kid had just made a short film a few months back and now he made a film, not a short film.

"Excuse me Mr. Brandt but what was the film called?" This time, a beautiful brunette asked him.

"My film was called <The Man from Earth>, it will join the competition with other 19 participants and I hope I can win Palme d'Or, or at least win some awards as this is my first movie." He said.

Most of the people on red carpets tonight can't wait to see another film that this miracle boy has directed. Would it be a classic like his short film? Or would become a joke?

After he answered most of the questions related to his film, finally the question shifted to more private topics. "Mr. Brandt, who are you taking to the red carpet today, we have never seen or heard anything of her before?"

"Oh, guys let me introduce you to the actress that starred in my film, her name is Sandra Bullock. Fortunately, she accepts my offer to walk with me in red carpets today, or else I would be a sadboy today."

"Are you dating her Mr. Brandt?" A rude paparazzi interjected.

"No, she is my partner for red carpet only for tonight." He answered with a simple sentence.

"When the two of you will marry?" The more ridiculous question appeared before him.

"I said she's my partner for tonight only, not my girlfriend or fiancée." Al appreciated their imaginations, he's still 15 for God's sake.

Afraid that the question would lead him to more trouble, he escaped the scene, but before that, he said with the smallest voice he could muster that only Sandra could hear him,"...yet."

Sandra who was confused about what he meant, continued to pester him about it and Al keep saying "it's a secret". Sandra didn't give up and lightly hitting him to get an answer, Al evaded her strike while laughing.

She had an idea about what he said, but she just needed his confirmation.

People who saw them from afar were thinking of how cute they were as a couple. Fortunately, they didn't ask anything about her age, or else it could become a scandal.

At the end of the red carpet, he met with Sophie Marceau and her husband.

Sophie offered him a hand and Al lightly kissed it. "[Madame Marceau, a pleasure to meet you again. This is my partner for tonight, Sandra Bullock. She can't speak French, can we turn our conversation to English?]"

"Of course Mr. Brandt, nice to meet you, Sandra, my name is Sophie Marceau." She offered her hand for Sandra to shake.

Sandra gladly shook her hand and said, "Nice to meet you, Mrs. Marceau, my name is Sandra Bullock."

Sophie then turned to face Al, "Mr. Brandt, I have checked some American newspaper and it turns out that you are that Ghost boy! I really like your performance there, it spooked me. Oh, by the way, this is my husband Andrzej Żuławski."

Al greeted her husband but he replied it with a cold tone, then started to criticized in boomer language, mocked him for too young and inexperienced to become a director.

He also commented that if not for his fame, he would have rallied a bunch of French and other European directors to kick him out of the Cannes.

This made Sophie has an ugly face, luckily Sandra didn't understand French or else she would be really argued or even fight with him.

Al just smiled hearing his sharp words, he hid his hands behind his back and clenched his fist.

If this was not on a red carpet, he would have punched him. After he learned some martial arts and human anatomies in biology class, he knew which parts of the body and how much power he must use to punch someone so it won't leave them a mark.

Then they both left, Sophie gave them an apology for her husband's attitude which was not her fault at all, well half of it may be because she chose some old grumpy guy rather than a decent person.

"I didn't know what he was saying but from his tone, he sounds rude and looks like an asshole," Sandra whispered to his ear.

"Words Sandy, I don't want that mouth ruined your beauty." He poked her side belly with his forefinger.

She evaded his attacks and said, "(Snort) you already knew me well Al, and I believe it won't."

He decided to change the topic because of his failed pickup lines.

"Let's go meet with the other cast inside. I will also introduce you to some Hollywood directors and producers to increase your chance to get a role." He gave her his arm and they walked again to gather with everyone else.

"So caring, am I your lover now?" She tried to tease him.

"Nope, but you are my friend. I always help my friends, but if you wanted the next stage, wait for me to be legal first." Sandra elbowed him in his stomach while Al laughing.

They entered a crowded hall that was filled with many celebrities and film practitioners.

He introduced Sandra Bullock to some people and even a European director tried to hit on her. So she just escaped by saying she was Al's companion.

Al told her that never gave out her hands too long to them or they would have eaten her hands.

Sandra tried to ask again about what Al had meant but he still didn't want to tell her, he just said to believe in his words.

They met with Liam Neeson and Al's film cast and crews. They didn't get an invitation to red carpets but Al has made sure they were present in the opening ceremony.

The opening ceremony always celebrated by screening the film directed by famous directors, like Spielberg used to do in his <E.T.> film.

So currently they were watching the film premiere called <Witness>.

After the ceremony was over, Al and Sandra decided to call it a day and didn't join any party invitations. His film will be screened tomorrow, but before that he asked Sandra and the other cast to go to the beach with him and his friends tomorrow morning before the Film Festival open.

She said she would join him later, she wanted to buy a souvenir first for her sister tomorrow morning.

So he went back to the hotel and would go to the beach again with his folks tomorrow.

The next morning, when they went to the beach, He and the girls were buying the ice cream for everyone else. He gave the girls an ultimatum to tsunami them again if they didn't accompany Al to the beach today.

(*tsunami: flip their bed until they fell on the floor and splash them with water.)

The girls were almost crying after heard his warning, as compensation for making them almost cried, he would buy them ice cream.

When they were on the way back to their spot, they saw a commotion in the streets. Al and the girls wanted to find out what caused it, to his surprise he didn't expect that the one who was making a scene was his friends.

He saw that Max was having a blue eye while Anthony was arguing in English with some woman who used German in her mumbling.

Max who saw Al pleaded in his direction to make Anthony stopped fighting with this stranger.

"Okay both of you two, cut it out. What's the problem anyway?"

""Al!?"" Then both of them stared at each other in surprise because they called his name.

Yep, the spitfire woman is the one and only, Sandra Bullock.

Al kind of forgot to introduce his friends to his film's cast, so far only Robin knew all the cast of <The Man From Earth>.

Turned out Anthony and Max wanted to flirt with some European chicks on the beach and they met Sandra. Sandra pretended she didn't know English and spoke in German, but still, they kept flirting with her.

The situation heated up until Sandra accidentally hit Max's eye so the arguments began.

After they apologized here and there, he took Sandra to their sunbathing spot and tell them the story.

They just laughed at the two guys who not only failed to get the German chick, but get beaten by her.

Al didn't forget to introduce Sandra to everyone else and everyone saw that Al and Sandra acted intimate with each other.

When Sandra introduced herself, suddenly she felt a cold wind that made her shuddered.

She saw that the aura came from the 2 women and 2 girls, respectively Laura, Drew, Ione, and Mary.

Four of them had a very different opinion of her and Al.

'No! My piggybank!" Thought Laura.

'My big brother!!' Thought Drew.

'I won't approve Al with any strange woman without a test!' Thought Ione.

Mary then turned to our directions and said, 'How the fu*ck you fuc*ker could hear my thou.... bzzzzzttttt

To Be Continued....