Rendez-Vous In Cannes
Jennifer Bohnet
To my husband Richard with love
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Welcome to Cannes in the month of May in the year 2010
The day before she was due to fly to the South of France for the Cannes Film Festival, Anna Carson was in Somerset looking at a possible location for the latest film she was involved with as Production Designer.
Marshland House lay at the end of a long drive flanked by flowering white rhododendron bushes. From the outside, the brick built Victorian mansion looked perfect for her purpose. The location agent had told her that the major part of the house was untouched since the nineteenth century and, importantly for the film, the basement kitchen still boasted its original fixtures.
Anna parked her car and glanced at her watch. Fifteen minutes before the agent was due. Time enough for her to have a quick look around the grounds on her own and take some photographs. Apart from the set designer needing some, she knew Leo would want to see photographs of
