Whereas if you're sitting in a balcony watching it on the stage, you're saying, 'So, is this funny or not?

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That is how it looks from the balcony of a small hotel in Cannes this morning.

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It came a few minutes later in a reprisal of the balcony scene, this time with a different cast but the same resulted: swift eviction.

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It comprised a cot bed in a clean, white-washed cell up under the eves and adjacent to a big balcony that looked out onto the street and across the city's dark tempestuous night.

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