Ulysses At Cannes

Ulysses at CannesStately, Slim Joseph Strick, director of the film Ulysses, climbed onto the stage of the Salle Cocteau. He sat down at the press-conference table on which someone had placed a statuette no bigger than a Hollywood Oscar: James Joyce in brass, seated with his backside turned to the director.Some minutes before, in the Grande Salle of the Palais des Festivals, 20 or 30 members of the press--or at least members of the audience at the press showing of Ulysses--had walked out of the t...