Wes Anderson talks ‘The Phoenician Scheme,’ Gene Hackman and his Cannes bus

CANNES, France (AP) — Wes Anderson isn’t driving the bus. Laurent is. That’s the name of the driver who’s bringing Anderson, and his bus, to the Cannes Film Festival.

As they drive from his home in Paris to the South of France, Anderson explains by phone: “I don’t drive the bus. You have to have, like, four years of training and an EU bus driver’s license. The thing is, if you’re going to drive a bus like this, you’ve got to be able to drive it in reverse, too.”

For years, Anderson has, in favor of the normal festival cars that shuttle guests, brought his own bus to Cannes so his

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