Via Jean-Louis Sabaji Aishwarya Rai Bachchan showed once again why her Cannes Film Festival appearances are so anticipated: wearing a beautiful custom-designed Jean-Louis Sabaji Couture gown in gold, with jewellery by Boucheron. The Bollywood actress and former Miss World walked the red carpet for Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life, which is in competition at […]
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Priyanka Chopra’s wedding gown signals a special anniversary on day 5 of the Festival de Cannes
Mike Marsland As linked by Monica Bellucci/Instagram Screening out of competition was the Claude Lelouche film, Les plus belles années d’une vie, with the director present on the red carpet alongside actors Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marianne Denicourt, Souad Amidou, Antoine Sire, and Monica Bellucci, and screenwriter Valérie Perrin. Elsa Zylberstein wore Azzedine Alaïa […]
Festival de Cannes, day 4: Madison Beer, Penélope Cruz, Bella Hadid light up the red carpet

Instagram John Phillips Gisela Schober Chanel There was strong competition for best dressed on day four of the Festival de Cannes, a day that saw the premières of Too Old to Die Young, Little Joe and Dolor y gloria (Pain and Glory). Attending Pain and Glory, US singer Madison Beer wowed with a voluminous […]

Pascal Le Segretain Dominique Charriau Stephane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images Dominique Charriau The much-awaited Elton John musical biopic, Rocketman, had its première on day three of the Festival de Cannes, with Sir Elton himself among the celebrities on the red carpet. Sir Elton produced the film along with his spouse David Furnish, who both attended, along […]

Marcia Grandini/Film Awards TV Les Misérables is the first French film in competition at Cannes 2019, but it’s not the classic by Victor Hugo (there have been enough adaptations of late). Director Ladj Ly’s first fictional film is set in Montfermeil, Paris, which inspired Hugo, but is set in the modern day and centres around […]

Daniele Venturelli Vittorio Zunino Celotto The 72nd Festival de Cannes got off to a slower start than usual, with the opening night horror film The Dead Don’t Die getting mixed reviews, and activity from major sponsors like L’Oréal and Renault was substantially less than in years gone by—it’s as though they’re here almost as lip […]

AmFAR AmFAR, the Foundation for Aids Research, hosted its 25th annual gala at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc at the Cap d’Antibes, but there were fewer film celebrities and more fashion models attending, possibly a consequence of the fallout surrounding disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, heavily involved in previous years. AmFAR chairman Kenneth Cole had resigned […]
Festival de Cannes’ quiet day 9: Adriana Lima, Toni Garrn, Cindy Bruna at Beoning première
Jacovides–Borde–Moreau/Bestimage It’s the calm before the gala AmFAR Gala at Cannes. At the première of Korean filmmaker Chang-dong Lee’s Beoning (버닝 in Korean, or Burning) on day 9, notable celebrities included La Toya Jackson, Toni Garrn (in Elie Saab), Adriana Lima (in Alberta Ferretti, with jewellery by Chopard), Pierce Brosnan and Keely Shaye Smith, Mette […]

Venturelli Screening out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival on day eight was Solo: a Star Wars Story, the first time part of the series had appeared at Cannes since Revenge of the Sith in 2005. Garnering favourable reviews, the film, directed by Ron Howard, stars Alden Ehrenreich, Thandie Newton, Emilia Clarke, Donald […]

Venturelli; Dominique Charriau; Pascal le Segretain Sonam Kapoor, Naomi Campbell, Ming Xi (奚夢瑤), Mahira Khan and Jane Fonda were among the celebrities walking the Cannes Film Festival red carpet at the première of Spike Lee’s BlacKKKlansman, a comedy–drama based on the real-life story of a black American police officer, Ron Stallworth, who infiltrated the […]