Cannes, the city that, for 12 cinematic days, doesn't sleep. (Credit: AFP)
It's a little past 1 a.m. On the artificially lit Croisette, a young woman stares at her smartphone with makeup-rimmed eyes. In a mini-skirt and transparent top, the recent graduate does not go unnoticed in the noisy streets filled with vacationers drunk on champagne."I like to feel admired," Olena says. "Envied by the girls, desired by the guys." Her heels clack across cobblestones dirtied by partygoers' cigarette butts, her own cigarette perched between her fingers.The tall blonde and aspiring translator has been pulling all-nighters for nearly ten days in Cannes. She says she sees men as "prey, easy breadwinners." Olena is only 25 and already harbors "an excessive need for revenge."She's determined to leave behind her village in the Ukrainian mountains. "One day, I'll be so...
It's a little past 1 a.m. On the artificially lit Croisette, a young woman stares at her smartphone with makeup-rimmed eyes. In a mini-skirt and transparent top, the recent graduate does not go unnoticed in the noisy streets filled with vacationers drunk on champagne."I like to feel admired," Olena says. "Envied by the girls, desired by the guys." Her heels clack across cobblestones dirtied by partygoers' cigarette butts, her own cigarette perched between her fingers.The tall blonde and aspiring translator has been pulling all-nighters for nearly ten days in Cannes. She says she sees men as "prey, easy breadwinners." Olena is only 25 and already harbors "an excessive need for revenge."She's determined to leave behind her village in the Ukrainian mountains. "One day, I'll be...