Highlights from Cannes as a film festival up

While the Cannes Film Festival is handing over its prizes, AFP looks back on some of the highlights of a politically charged fourteen days of demonstrations and celebrities.

– dress code of the red carpet –

The festival began on May 13 with a flap over a new clothing order, which says that extravagant large dresses on the red carpet and “total nudity” are prohibited.

Oscar winner Halle Berry was the first victim in which the star “Monster's Ball” was forced to change a cloakroom for the opening ceremony because her dress was too long.

Although many people seemed to defend the guidelines, the Indian model and the influencer Snigdha Baruah had to remove a flowing train out of their dress after they had been blocked by safety at the VIP input.

Not satisfied with the fact that the clothes have the entire spotlight, “successor” star and the jury member Jeremy Strong stealed, the Riviera brought some striking men's clothing in strong colors.

– #Me too –

After years of scandals in the film industry and the pressure to take a position, the festival announced a new #metoo policy by excluding an actor in a prominent French film from the red carpet due to allegations of rape.

Theo Navarro-Mussy, who appears in “Dossier 137”, denies the allegations and a first police investigation was completed last month.

This year's meeting on the Riviera was a step in the rehabilitation of the scandally planned star Kevin Spacey, who received lifelong Achievement Award during a charity gala.

The Australian legend Nicole Kidman now published a plea for other directors and said that their number was still “incredibly low”.

Only three women have ever won a palm.

-Chaute actor reversed-director–

A trio of actors gave their highly expected directorial debut with different assets.

“Baby girl” actor Harris Dickinson (28) and “Twilight” star Kristen Stewart (35) left Cannes with praise in her ears for her films, “Ururchin” and “The Chronology of Water”.

Reviews for Scarlett Johansson's first turn behind the camera, “Eleanor the Great”, would have made a more difficult reading.

– Gazastriah – –

This year there was no from the war in Gaza. Hundreds of film characters signed an open letter on the eve of the festival in which the film industry was called to name “genocide”.

The heartbreaking documentary of the Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi about killed Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, which was killed in an Israeli air raid on her house in Gaza last month, left his audience in a stunned silence when he became primeval on May 15th.

The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, ran the red carpet and wore a T-shirt with the names of killed Gaza strips when he promoted a documentary about his own life.

– Trump -ära –

In the middle of the champagne and air kisses, US President Donald Trump also concentrated on the heads, especially on the Cannes film market, where business is reduced for new projects.

Trump's promise to implement 100 percent tariffs for films that were produced “produced in foreign countries” provoked a mixture of horror, unbelief and ridicule from industry connoisseurs.

“I can't take it very seriously. It's just too surreal,” the American director Wes Anderson told AFP.

“Taxi driver” star Robert de Niro has spoken “America's philistic president” in his opening ceremony.

– cruise show –

Tom Cruise swept in Cannes in Cannes in Cannes with a hype hype around “Mission: Impossible – The End Reckoning”, which led to mixed reviews in the first week.

Director Christopher McQuarria revealed that Cruise and his own stunts in power in South Africa had gone a little far and could have died.

“He was on the wing of the aircraft. His arms hung over the front of the wing. We couldn't say whether he was or not with consciousness,” said the US filmmaker.

– strength and palm down –

The closing ceremony on Saturday was the last act of a day filled by drama, on which Cannes suffered more than five hours of power outages.

The local authorities accuse the alleged sabotage in a nearby electricity clerk and a pylon.

The reaction of the French emergency services was also one of the biggest topics among the participants this year after a man had been put down by a falling palm in the first week in a freak accident.

He was taken to the hospital and released a few days later to return home.

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