Tom Cruise hit the Cannes Film Festival’s red carpet on Wednesday to a live band rendition of the “Mission: Impossible” theme song as organisers pulled out all the stops to celebrate what may be the action star’s last appearance in the franchise. Expectations had been high for Cruise’s return to Cannes three years after he […]
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The winners at the Cannes film festival
The Cannes film festival ended Saturday in the south of France with the awarding of its top prize, the Palme d’Or. Here is a list of the main winners: – Palme d’Or: Julia Ducournau for “Titane” (France) – Grand Prix: Shared by Ashgar Farhadi for “A Hero” (Iran) and Juho Kuosmanen for “Compartment No.6” (Finland) […]
Cannes cold shoulders its ‘Queer Palm’ prize
It has been won by big-name Hollywood directors and is headed by one of France’s top comic stars, but the “Queer Palm” prize celebrating LGBTQ movies at Cannes still has no official place at the world’s top film festival. Awards for films with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer content are already an integral part […]
Cannes falls for ‘The Worst Person in the World’
The Cannes film festival has fallen head over heels for a Norwegian film about a young woman trying to find herself and the unknown actress who plays her. “A star is born,” declared The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw. Renate Reinsve “takes off like a rocket and deserves star status to rival Lily James or Alicia Vikander,” […]
Cannes grossed out by festival spit tests
Cannes — the glamour, the pop of champagne corks, the endless parties … and now the dawn chorus of Hollywood stars hocking up to spit into plastic funnels. The new ritual is the latest addition to the layers of ceremonial that surround the world’s biggest film festival. Every day thousands of festival goers from the […]
A familiar question at Cannes: where are the women?
With just four women among the directors behind the 24 films in competition for the Palme d’Or, a familiar script is playing out at Cannes. Only one woman has ever won the film industry’s most prestigious prize: Jane Campion for “The Piano” in 1993. Debates over whether to blame the festival’s selection committee, or the […]
Covid makes the Cannes parties even more exclusive
The battle for after-party invites was always fierce at the world’s most glamorous festival, but thanks to social distancing rules it will be even harder than usual to get past the doorman in Cannes this year. “We won’t be able to do just whatever we want,” warned Cannes Film Festival president Pierre Lescure. “We are […]
Tahar Rahim, Maggie Gyllenhaal in the jury for Cannes
“The Serpent” star Tahar Rahim, US actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and “Parasite” lead Song Kang-Ho are part of this year’s Cannes Film Festival jury led by director Spike Lee, organisers announced Thursday. It will be a female-majority jury for the July 6 to 17 festival, which has faced criticism in recent years for its lack of […]
Kangana loses 5kg for Cannes red carpet
Actress and director Kangana Ranaut is a go-getter. Trust her to surprise you and how! The ‘Manikarnika’ star is gearing up for her stunning Cannes appearance and for that she is leaving no stone unturned to look picture perfect. The talented actress will be seen at Cannes this year too and to make her first […]
Lebanese actor draws attention to Palestinian suffering at Cannes
Lebanese actor Manal Issa held a sign that read “Stop the Attack on Gaza” at the premiere of “Solo: A Star Wars Story” at the Cannes film Festival on Tuesday. Palestinians on Tuesday marked the Nakba, or “disaster”, in the memory of more than 700,000 Palestinians who escaped or were expelled in the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s […]