Cannes Film Festival

Some people get a job. Others earn one.

Can an unlikeable heroine make us root for her, and why do we find successful, independent women, unlikeable? These are two of many questions prompted by Céline Devaux’s slyly intelligent comedy: Everybody Loves Jeanne. Jeanne (Blanche Gardin) is that intimidating woman that people love to hate – smart, well put together, heading up her own company – whose goal is to save the ocean.

Sophisticated trousers and shorts dominated the red carpet, while the perennial favorite, black, made its mark with the silhouette and fabric. Kristen Stewart, Léa Seydoux, and more - click through.

The movie is the thing at Cannes, but the eye is on the red carpet each night as the world gathers to capture fashion. If you want to focus attention - strip almost bare and rush the carpet.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced its sponsorship of The American Pavilion, the center of business and hospitality for the American film community at this year’s 75th Cannes Film Festival, kicking off its year-long celebration of the upcoming 80th Annual Golden Globe® Awards. “We are pleased and honored to sponsor this year’s American Pavilion at such a historic time with the 75th Cannes Film Festival and the upcoming 80th Golden Globes.

The Cannes Film Festival has concluded its Official Selection ahead of next month’s 75th edition. Amongst the movies competing for the Palme d’Or are three Belgian productions: The Eight Mountains / Le Otto Montagne, by Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix Van Groeningen (Beautiful Boy.

The Cannes Film Festival may have moved from its pre-COVID May dates and will instead take place in person from July 6-17, but the return to tradition was apparent when festival president Pierre Lescure and director Thierry Fremaux announced the line-up of 63 films from the Normandie Theater in Paris with the poignant opening statement: “Cinema is not dead”. A French-made (albeit English-language) film will open the 74th annual edition on July 6 at the Palais du Festival.

Right now, we should be in the south of France with the Mediterranean lapping white sands, the best of film being shown for the first time, and fashion lighting up the premieres. Let’s not look at now.

You could call The Dead Don’t Die a neo-noir small town zombie comedy. The apocalypse here hits the small upstate hamlet of Centerville, an actually slightly off-center Mayberry style all-American town, inhabited by zany characters: a movie buff convenience store clerk, amiably gruff diner waitresses, a resident mumbling racist (Steve Buscemi), the motel owner and two somewhat hapless sheriff deputies (Chloë Sevigny and Adam Driver) led by nonplussed sheriff Bill Murray.

The weather was perfect Riviera spring, the photographers were at the ready, bizarre creatures roamed the Croisette (some of them promoting a new kids' movie) and the Palais des Festivals hosted its first press conference and its first gala screening. The 71st  Cannes Film Festival is officially open.