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Guillaume Canet’s new film, Blood Ties, is the latest débutante in the official selection at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
   Set in Brooklyn, New York in the 1970s, it is Canet’s first English-langage film, starring Clive Owen and Billy Crudup as two brothers who find themselves on different sides of the law. The cast includes Zoe Saldana, Mila Kunis, James Caan, Noah Emmerich, and Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts (from De rouille et d’os, or Rust & Bone).
   Celebrities at the red-carpet première at the Festival de Cannes included Aishwarya Rai, Milla Jovovich, Hofit Golan, Mohammed Al Turki, Selita Ebanks, Phoebe Price, Hilaria Thomas, Alec Baldwin, Axelle Laffont, Gilles Lellouche, Allison Williams, Alice Taglioni, Pierre Niney, Elodie Navarre, Aure Atika, and Sarah Stern. Representing Blood Ties were Zoe Saldana, Billy Crudup, Noah Emmerich, Guillaume Canet, Clive Owen and Marion Cottilard.
   Also at the Festival on Monday were Rosario Dawson, Denis Menochet and Céline Sallette, spotted wearing jewellery and watches from the Montblanc range.
   Sponsor Electrolux, hosting at the Agora Pavilion, saw James Franco visit, and thank two-star Michelin chef Bruno Oger for the private luncheon prepared yesterday.

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The Coen Brothers’ latest film, Inside Llewyn Davies, had its Cannes Film Festival première on Sunday.
   The film is set in the 1960s’ Greenwich Village folk music scene, with Oscar Isaac in the title role. Carey Mulligan plays his love interest, Jean Berkey, who is in a relationship with Justin Timberlake’s character yet has become pregnant to Davies. John Goodman plays a jazz musician, and Garrett Hedlund his sidekick.
   Garrett Hedlund, Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman and T-Bone Burnet, and directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, represented the film at the Festival de Cannes, where it is in competition.
   The première attracted numerous celebrities to the Grand Théâtre Lumière’s red carpet: former Miss World, actress and Cannes regular Aishwarya Rai, Nadine Labaki, Jessica Biel, Maudy Koesnadi, Kirsten Dunst, Frédérique Bel, Hofit Golan, Cindy Fabre, Brahim Asloum and Isabella Orsini, Giulio Base and Tiziana Rocca, Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman (who managed a public snog for the paparazzi), Vidya Balan, Olga Sorokina, Jane Fonda, Melita Toscan du Plantier, shoe designer Christian Louboutin, Christoph Waltz, Cristian Mungiu and Lynne Ramsay, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, and the chairman of the Cannes Film Festival, Gilles Jacob.
   One of the main sponsors, Electrolux, has been hosting the stars at the Electrolux Agora Pavilion, and on Sunday, Jade Jagger paid a quick visit, greeted by two-Michelin-star chef Bruno Oger.

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Above In what must be her year, Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence was in Cannes to promote her new film, Catching Fire.

It was another evening of celebrities at the 66th Festival de Cannes, the Cannes Film Festival, yesterday, with the première of Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian).
   Attending the première were Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence (in Dior), Liya Kebede, Paz Vega, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, Louise Bourgoin, Elena Lenina, Jessica Miller, Lars Ulrich, Phoebe Price, Mia Frye, Gary Dourdan, Lady Victoria Hervey, Camille Lellouche, and many of the L’Oréal Paris spokeswomen: Cheryl Cole (in Zuhair Murad), Jane Fonda, Megan Gale, Eva Longoria, and Doutzen Kroes (in Calvin Klein). Grand Central’s Camille Lellouche, Denis Menochet, Lea Seydoux, Tahar Rahim and director Rebecca Zlotowski were present on day four’s festivities, as were Catching Fire’s Sam Claflin, Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, and director Francis Lawrence. (Both films are being promoted at Cannes.) Jimmy P.’s Benicio del Toro, Gina McKee, Mathieu Amalric, Danny Mooney, Michelle Thrush, Misty Upham, director Arnaud Desplechin and writer Kent Jones were also present. Thrush and Upham have American roots extending back to the Cree and Blackfoot tribes respectively.
   Jimmy P. deals with a post-World War II American soldier from the Blackfoot tribe, Jimmy Picard (del Toro), who has suffered from war trauma, who winds up at a hospital in Topeka, Kansas, with Amalric playing his doctor, Georges Devereux, a psychoanalyst and anthropologist with a speciality in native American tribes. It is based on a true story as recounted in Devereux’s 1951 book, Reality and Dream.
   Jimmy P. is Desplechin’s fourth film selected for the main competition at Cannes.

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Our day two coverage at the 66th Festival de Cannes—the Cannes Film Festival—sees two premières.
   The first première was for Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, starring Emma Watson, Claire Julien, Taissa Fariga, Katie Chang, and Israel Broussard. The story is based on fact, about a group of teenagers who robbed celebrities’ houses. Zhang Ziyi was one of the celebrities of note at the première.
   François Ozon’s Jeune et jolie, about a 17-year-old girl who becomes a high-class prostitute. Frédéric Pierrot, Geraldine Pailhas, director Francois Ozon, Marine Vacth and Fantin Ravat were on the red carpet at the Grand Théâtre Lumière, while other celebrities included Virginie Ledoyen, Sonam Kapoor, Lyia Kebede, Fan Bingbing, Freida Pinto, Inès de la Fressange, Hayley Roberts and David Hasselhoff, Aimée Mullins, Marilou Berry, Hofit Golan, and Geraldine Pailhas.
   Electrolux continued its support on day two with meals prepared by chef Anne-Sophie Pic at the Electrolux Agora Pavilion.
   Meanwhile, Montblanc has sent photographs from Cannes, with celebrities wearing items from its jewellery and watch ranges, including Jimmy Jean-Louis and designer Jean-Claude Jitrois wearing Timewalker chronographs, Sarah Marshall with its earrings, necklace, ring and bijou de tête from the Princess Grace de Monaco collection, and Annabelle Belmondo (granddaughter of Jean-Paul).

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Top celebrities, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Cara Delevingne, Sonam Kapoor, Lana Del Rey, Nicole Kidman, Zhang Ziyi, Georgia May Jagger, supermodel Cindy Crawford, Fan Bingbing, Inès de La Fressange, Isla Fisher, singer Florence Welch, designer Jean-Claude Jitrois, Freida Pinto, Ludivine Sagnier, Julianne Moore, Bai Ling, Lady Victoria Hervey, Phoebe Price, Lorie, Paz Vega, Frédérique Bel, Elizabeth Debicki, Zhang Yuqi, Mallika Sherawat, Josephine Jobert, Tanya Dziahileva, Vahina Giocante, Aurelie Filippetti, Clotilde Courau, Michel Piccoli, and Hayley Roberts and David Hasselhoff—the Hoff himself—attended the 66th Cannes Film Festival opening gala at the Théâtre Lumière.
   Swedish appliance manufacturer Electrolux, meanwhile, hosted the Festival de Cannes’ opening dinner, with award-winning chefs Anne-Sophie Pic (three Michelin stars) and Bruno Oger (two Michelin stars) at the Electrolux Agora Pavilion for the third consecutive year, treating guests to a four-course meal.
   The 2013 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was the first film to kick off the events at Cannes. The movie, directed by Baz Luhrmann, stars DiCaprio and Fisher.
   It is one of 20 films in contention for the Festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or, competing with Behind the Candelabra, a bio-pic about Liberace, and Only God Forgives, starring Ryan Gosling, among others.
   The 2013 jury is headed by Steven Spielberg and includes Nicole Kidman and Christoph Waltz.

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Swedish brand Lindex, owned by the Stockmann group in Finland, has launched the last part of its summer 2013 campaign, starring Penélope Cruz.
   The first part, which broke on April 15, saw Cruz in Hollywood mode, playing on her Oscar-winning persona. The second part of the campaign, announced at the end of April, had the actress in a relaxed home environment.
   The third and final part conveys a beachy, outdoors feel as Lindex pushes beach tunics, striped tops, shorts and maxi dresses.
   They hit Lindex stores, on- and offline, on May 20.
   In a release, Nina Starck, design manager at Lindex, says, ‘This is “the” holiday collection! We have continued the popular modern preppy style with a playful twist for our Holly & Whyte collection this summer. And I am convinced that it will be just as well appreciated by our customers as the earlier collections from Holly & Whyte.’
   The colour palette includes white and navy, along with red, green, orange and neon colours. Stripes and paisley patterns also feature, according to the company.
   Cruz won an Academy Award for best supporting actress in the 2008 Woody Allen film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Lindex currently has around 400 stores, including in Russia and the Middle East.

A Lucire special promotion

Many of our female readers are already sold on ASOS, so it’s great to see the online retailer give the men some consideration.
   It’s started on an item of clothing that most men should have no trouble ordering online: denim. The two new videos promoting the ASOS Menswear Denim range—which has over 600 styles—are cheeky and should appeal to most men. It’s asking men to send them challenges, and ASOS will respond to the best ones using items from the range.
   The first video is a humorous look at how one can become a drummer—with ASOS skinny jeans, of course—while the second, on how to save a football team from relegation, requires ASOS denim shorts.
   Netizens are asked to submit a challenge to ASOS at its Twitter account at ASOS_Menswear, hashtagging denimchallenge, or via an email form at the end of its videos.
   Challenges could include a request for help to meet a girl, or freezing jeans, as the company.
   ASOS says it will reply back to the best challenges, each using a product from its denim line.
   The idea behind the humorous campaign is to spark a conversation.
   ASOS has also launched a competition to tie in with the campaign, opening the morning of May 10, and closing at 4.30 p.m. BST. The winner is the one who Tweets the best denim challenge, as determined by the judges—with humour and imagination the two criteria they are looking for. The winner takes home a denim item of their choice. Full rules can be found at ASOS’s website.
   ASOS was founded in 2000 in the UK, and was floated on the AIM at the London Stock Exchange the following year. It now carries over 50,000 branded and own-label lines, with 1,500 new product lines being introduced each week.

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The talk today at Lucire was the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual costume gala, and who was the best and worst dressed.
   Our friends at ITN had a slightly different view to us, as we felt that Kim Kardashian let the side down with an unflattering floral-print dress. There is great maternity wear out there, but Kardashian’s look didn’t do it for us.
   We’re not sure how her dress was punk, which was the theme of this year’s gala, Punk: from Chaos to Couture.
   Beyoncé wore a gown with a flame motif and a long train by Givenchy, but we wouldn’t class that as the worst. Since largely every celebrity there was a punk poseur rather than an exponent of the movement, we thought it was a good interpretation of the theme while staying true to the red-carpet looks of previous Met galas. There was a sense of the DIY nature of punk even if her gown was put together by Riccardo Tisci.
   Taylor Swift was am ITN favourite with her J. Mendel black silk crepe gown and crystal neckline.
   However, our favourite was Sienna Miller. Miller wore a Burberry gown and studded leather jacket, and had studs in her ears and her hair. She expressed the punk spirit the closest, according to Lucire fashion editor Sopheak Seng.
   Sarah Jessica Parker, another favourite of ours, wore a Giles Deacon gown, a mohawk by Philip Treacy and Christian Louboutin boots, but managed to flash her knickers—as did Madonna in a plaid Givenchy jacket.
   Lucire also rated Rooney Mara donned a half-sheer Givenchy, while Christina Ricci properly went punk with a Vivienne Westwood plaid gown and Harry Winston jewellery.
   Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour wore a pink floral Chanel gown.
   Others were less punky and missed the essence of the roots of punk. Miley Cyrus and Anne Hathaway sported new blonde hairdos. Cyrus wore Marc Jacobs, while Hathaway, in Valentino, said she was inspired by Debbie Harry.
   Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Katie Holmes got ITN’s thumbs-up, with Holmes in a Calvin Klein halter dress by Francisco Costa. Jennifer Lopez appeared in a Michael Kors sequin-embroidered gown.