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Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, a black-and-white film in competition at the 66th Festival de Cannes, is a stylistic but not a thematic departure from his previous film, The Descendants. Bruce Dern and Will Forte play father and son in the new film, and June Squibb plays Dern’s wife.
   The storyline sees Dern’s character, Woody, receive an eligibility certificate in the mail that he believes entitles him to $1 million, so he begins walking the 850 miles to Lincoln, Nebraska. David, played by Forte, offers to drive him, even though he and his mother know the letter is a scam.
   Rance Howard, Angela McEwan and Stacy Keach also feature in Nebraska. Early reviews indicate that Payne’s choice of black-and-white film connects the rural American settings with a bygone era.
   Will Forte, June Squibb, Alexander Payne, Angela McEwan, Albert Berger, Bruce Dern, Laura Dern and Ron Yerxa promoted the film at Cannes at the Grand Théâtre Lumière.
   Nicole Kidman (in Valentino with jewellery by Fred Leighton) and Heidi Klum (in Versace, with Christian Louboutin heels and Lorraine Schwartz jewellery), however, stole the limelight on the red carpet. Kidman is part of the jury for the Cannes Film Festival this year, and walked down the red carpet with director Ang Lee, who serves with her.
   The other première was for Max Rose, a homage to Jerry Lewis, who was present at Cannes, along with writer–director Daniel Noah, Kerry Bishe, Kevin Pollak and Michel Legrand. Lewis, 87, plays a widowed jazz pianist.

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Above Irina Shayk was at her most fetching during the All Is Lost première.

Swedish appliance brand Electrolux continued to host celebrities at the Cannes Film Festival, on a day that saw the latest Robert Redford starrer, All Is Lost, make its début.
   The Grand Théâtre Lumière played host to J. C. Chandor’s (Margin Call) new film, where Redford’s character finds himself shipwrecked during a solo voyage in his yacht in the Indian Ocean.
   All Is Lost screened out of competition at the Festival de Cannes, and maintained its audience’s attention despite the limited scope. Redford proved to be as formidable today as in his heyday, if not more so.
   Representing the film on the red carpet were Redford and Chandor, and producers Neal Dodson, Anna Gerb, Mary Cameron Goodyear and Sibylle Szaggars.
   Celebrities attending the event included Zachary Quinto, Robert Redford, Petra Nemcova, Roman Polanski, former Formula 1 driver Sir Jackie Stewart and Lady Stewart, Irina Shayk, Alessandra Ambrosio, de Grisogono boss Fawaz Gruosi, Jessica Chastain, Sarah Marshall, former Miss Universe India Puja Gupta, Araya A. Hargate, Ameesha Patel, Li Yuchun, Barbara Palvin, Milla Jovovich, Mohammed Al Turki, Fagun Thakrar and Festival chairman Gilles Jacob.
   Electrolux hosted a Cannes grand jury luncheon on Wednesday, which Cannes festival director Thierry Frémaux, Christoph Waltz, Cristian Mungiu, Steven Spielberg, Nicole Kidman, Lynne Ramsay, Vidya Balan, Naomi Kawase, Ang Lee and Daniel Auteuil attended. Electrolux partner chef Bruno Oger, a holder of two Michelin stars, hosted at the Agora Pavilion.

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In our opinion, the party at the Festival de Cannes that one should not miss is the one thrown by de Grisogono, the upscale jewellery brand, at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes. If you want to see who’s in the Zeitgeist at Cannes, this is the place to look.
   This year, founder and president Fawaz Gruosi played host to actress Sharon Stone as the woman of the moment: the actress was resplendent in a red gown, complete with a thigh-high split. Now 55, Stone had aged remarkably little, and close-ups show that a good part of it is down to good genes and a decent beauty régime.
   Stone, who is arguably more popular in France than in the US—French media raved about Basic Instinct in the 1990s—stole the limelight at the Cannes Film Festival throughout the day, with a cobalt blue gown earlier while attending the Michael Douglas starrer, Behind the Candelabra, the Liberace bio-pic.
   Plenty of other celebs lit up the de Grisogono party at the Hôtel du Cap: Paris Hilton, Adriana Sklenaříková Karembeu, Ana Beatriz Barros, Alessandra Ambrosio (who was Instagramming the event), Lisa Verberght, Hofit Golan, Karmen Pedaru, Elisabetta Gregoraci, Jessica Hart, Toni Garn, designer Eva Cavalli, Fiammetta Cicogna, producer Harvey Weinstein, Dite Anata, Gary Dourdan, and Stacy Keibler.
   Extra videos have been added at the end of this report from the Behind the Candelabra press conference and red carpet, as well as a compilation video of the fashion seen at the 66th Festival de Cannes to date.

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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.

Updated May 17, 2013, 12.09 p.m. GMT with Italian TV report on Thursday’s incident involving Gandy and Le Bon’s Jaguar XK 120


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Jaguar is participating in this year’s Mille Miglia from May 16 to 19, 2013, fielding a total of 24 cars, including six from Jaguar Heritage Racing.
   Its team includes Le Mans winner Andy Wallace and Alex Buncombe, and luminaries such as Olympian Sir Chris Hoy, Michael Quinn, three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis, actress Hannah Herzsprung, models David Gandy and Yasmin Le Bon, and Salvatore Ferragamo, the grandson of the famed designer, with whom he shares his name.
   The heritage models are three XK 120s and three C-types, while Jaguar will also field modern F-types, Lucire’s Car to Be Seen in for 2013.
   On the first day, Gandy and Le Bon, co-drivers of an XK 120, were pushed off the road by another competitor, but have begun again at the starting line on May 17. A brief Italian news report is embedded at the end of the article.
   Jaguar has previewed this year’s Mille Miglia with a short film, shown below, featuring Gandy, Le Bon, Buncombe, Murray Walker and, famously, Sir Stirling Moss and his 1952 co-driver Norman Dewis.
   Ferragamo is the Jaguar F-type’s Italian ambassador, a duty he also has with Relais & Châteaux worldwide. He was presented with an F-type 3·0 V6 S at the Castello di Gabbiano, in Mercatale Val di Pesa, near Firenze. His co-driver for the event is Michael Quinn, grandson of Jaguar founder Sir William Lyons.
   Bentley, meanwhile, says it will field two 4½-litre Supercharged Blowers, dating from the 1930s.

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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.

Kate Moss is the new face of St Tropez, the self-tanning brand, leading its first global advertising campaign.
   Two shots have been released: one of Moss in a white, one-piece swimsuit, and another in the nude.
   The campaign will be in print and online, and appear in point-of-sale materials from summer 2013. St Tropez is also encouraging users to use the hashtag offtosttropez on Twitter for a prize draw, which will include a holiday.
   The company has also issued a how-to video on how to get Moss’s tan in the campaign. Says Nichola Joss, St Tropez’s global tanning and skin-finishing expert, ‘To achieve Kate’s pool-side bronze for the shoot, the St Tropez Self Tan Bronzing Mousse applied with a St Tropez Applicator Mitt gives a natural-looking, streak-free result with a flawless finish. St Tropez Powder Bronzer perfects the look with a beautiful contoured effect and enhances the natural shape of Kate’s body.’
   The iconic supermodel says she has used the St Tropez brand since its inception.
   Michelle Feeney, CEO of PZ Cussons Beauty, the owner of St Tropez, said in a release, ‘As a global beauty brand with a heritage in tanning, St Tropez is now in 18 countries and women from Rio to LA are seeking the benefits of safe tanning. Kate’s fashion icon status is important to us but now her growing number of beauty campaigns proves that her appeal as a beauty icon resonates with confident women across all age groups globally.’