After the lukewarm opening film Maiwenn's Jeanne Du Barry, a fluffy costume drama starring Johnny Depp as King Louis XV the 76th Cannes Film Festival had its hottest ticket in a short film. Not just any short though: it's Pedro Almodovar's queer cowboy movie Strange Way Of Life, which saw patient festival-goers queuing up in the Rivera drizzle for nearly an hour to fill up even the worst seat of Salle Debussy on Wednesday.