A Cannes premiere for Jordan Firstman’s “Club Kid” centers on a gay Manhattan scenester who stops endless party drugs after learning he has a 10-year-old British son. The film is described as funny and sweet, prompting happy tears at the premiere through its message about facing oneself sober and confronting reality. Afterward, attendees move to a private beach and party through the night while watching Asghar Farhadi’s “Parallel Tales.” The narrator notes being asked about cocaine for the first time at Cannes and expresses a wish to have it, while also acknowledging some people are not supposed to snort illegal substances at work. The experience suggests Cannes can feel like a place where seriousness and indulgence collide.
"In all my years of coming to Cannes (2026 was the ninth), this was the first time that I've been asked if I had any cocaine, and also the first time that I've desperately wished that I did. That question was posed to me - by several different people in fact, all of them with such warm hope bulging from their eyes - at the beachfront soirée for Jordan Firstman's sensational " Club Kid, " a major festival breakout about a gay Manhattan scenester who finally decides to grow up and stop doing endless amounts of party drugs after he learns that he has a 10-year-old British son who loves the Cocteau Twins and Elliott Smith."
"The movie is funny and sweet, and it made everyone at the premiere cry happy tears about how beautiful it can be to face ourselves, sober up, and reckon with reality. Then everyone went across the Croisette to a private beach in the south of France and inhaled enough blow to stay awake through Asghar Farhadi's "Parallel Tales.""
"Well, I shouldn't say all - some of us are "not supposed" to "snort illegal substances" at our "jobs," whatever that means, and even after watching "Club Kid," I'm still not sure if I could tell my "kundles" from my "gundles" anyway. But the fact remains that Cannes often seems like the last place on Earth where anyone should take movies seriously, and the last place on Earth where anyone does."
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