Cannes officers up to date the movie pageant’s gown code this yr to ban full nudity and “voluminous” clothes. Above, actor Wan QianHui arrives for the opening ceremony on Tuesday.
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The 78th Cannes Movie Competition kicked off on Tuesday within the French Riviera, the place friends have been requested to decorate extra modestly.
“For decency causes, nudity is prohibited on the Crimson Carpet, in addition to in every other space of the Competition,” in accordance with the 2025 festival’s website. “Voluminous outfits, particularly these with a big prepare, that hinder the right move of visitors of friends and complicate seating within the theater aren’t permitted.”
The gown code apparently stunned Cannes jury member Halle Berry. Throughout a pageant press convention, the actress informed reporters she needed to make a last-minute change to the outfit she deliberate to put on on the opening night time gala: “I had a tremendous gown by [Gaurav] Gupta that I can’t put on tonight as a result of it is too massive of a prepare,” she stated. “I am not going to interrupt the foundations …The nudity half can also be most likely an excellent rule.”
The pageant additionally started per week after President Trump introduced that he needed to impose a 100% tariff on movies made outdoors of the U.S. Studios, streamers, filmmakers and different gamers within the leisure world are anxious about what any adjustments would imply for the worldwide movie and TV trade.
“At this stage, it is nonetheless too early to gauge the potential impression of those bulletins,” Cannes president Iris Knobloch informed Variety. “Nonetheless, I sincerely hope the worldwide movie trade will not be paralyzed by warning or uncertainty. The sector remains to be recovering from the profound disruptions attributable to the pandemic, labor strikes, and extra not too long ago, the wildfires in Los Angeles… Any system, in my opinion, ought to encourage cooperation — not competitors on the expense of others.”
Robert De Niro accepts Palme D’or
Throughout the opening ceremony, actor Leonardo DiCaprio introduced Robert De Niro with the celebrated Palme d’Or award. The 81-year-old, two-time Academy Award winner was honored for his legendary roles in movies similar to The Godfather Half II (1974), Raging Bull (1980), Taxi Driver (1976) and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
Throughout his speech, De Niro criticized President Trump, who he known as an “enemy of the humanities.”
“You possibly can’t put a worth on creativity, however apparently you’ll be able to put a tariff on it,” De Niro stated. “After all, that is unacceptable. All these assaults are unacceptable, and this is not simply an American drawback. It is a international one.”
For the second yr in a row, a small group of the pageant’s freelance staff briefly protested outdoors the opening ceremony. The motion was organized by the French labor collective Sous les écrans la dèche (Broke Behind the Screens), which goals to enhance working situations and to regain “intermittent worker” standing for hundreds of French TV and movie staff at Cannes, in accordance with the group’s web site.
This yr’s pageant opened with a three-film salute to Ukraine, and the premiere of Amélie Bonnin’s French romance Go away One Day.
Notably absent was a pageant common, French movie star Gérard Depardieu, who was simply discovered responsible of sexually assaulting two girls on a 2021 movie set. He was given an 18-month suspended jail sentence. Depardieu’s lawyer says his shopper will attraction.
