Cannes 2016, Day 8: The Dress, the Shoes and the Power of Gestures
May 18, 2016
And then suddenly all the films, all the directors and all the discussions were somehow put aside. Because of a dress. A red silk dress worn by supermodel-in-the-making Bella Hadid for the gala première of The Unkown Girl (La Fille Inconnue), by the Dardenne brothers. Our grandparents would say that the dress left very liitle to the imagination. Our grandparents would be right, but the fact is – that extremely well cut lenght of red silk momentarily upstaged the Dardennes, the boos for Olivier Assayas' Personal Shopper, the ongoing Woody Allen controversy and pretty much everything else. That is the fickle nature of an event like Cannes, in love with both art and gimmick, a tight drum where a single hit can generate a deafening noise.