Cannes is mired in sensations and scandals

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

The Cannes Film Festival is not only high-profile premieres, but also no less high-profile scandals. For seven days since the beginning of the jubilee film festival, scandalous incidents have already accumulated a decent amount.

Let's start with the global: the beaches of the Croisette and Monaco, like last year, were invaded by purple jellyfish. Local residents sigh sadly: the forecast is bad for the whole summer. In the newspapers there were reports of giant two-meter individuals, in addition, information was printed on what measures to take if the jellyfish did sting. It turns out that in no case should a burn be rinsed with fresh water.

Evil tongues claim that this time the culprit of the passions was Nasser al-Rashid, a Saudi businessman and adviser to the king, who sailed to Cannes on his famous yacht "Lady Mura", the most expensive in the world - its cost is about $ 200 million. Allegedly, she, having stumbled on an underwater rock, damaged the hydrocarburetor and terribly polluted the surroundings. The Cannes authorities demand an explanation.

Meanwhile, Sharon Stone managed to organize a party for her arrival at the festival last weekend at the "Coxo" club, and then went to the reception on the occasion of her own arrival on the yacht to her friend, Italian couturier Roberto Cavalli. Not without a curiosity: the designer's wife, Eva, lost her skirt. More precisely, the white silk piece of the toilet suddenly fell and got tangled in the legs at the very moment when the fashionable lady boarded the ship. Eva, blushing to the roots of her hair, rushed to the side of the deck, picking up the fallen piece of wardrobe as she walked.

Legendary actress and singer Jane Birkin presented her first project as a director in Cannes on Monday - Boxes, in which she herself starred. About ten years ago I started writing about a woman at the age of 45-50 years. About horror, about mystery, about fears of this particular age. Who will need her? From the age of 19 she could give birth to children to the men she loved. the gift she is capable of now? Age scares the heroine Anna no less than the tense expectations associated with adolescence. Who can love you with all this burden, with all this history left in the past? Or, perhaps, people love each other just for this “These are the questions I asked,” said 51-year-old Birkin at a press conference.

On Monday evening, Quentin Tarantino presented his new brainchild, "Death Proof". "This is a completely crazy movie. Everything you've seen before with the credits" directed by Quentin Tarantino "- it was childish jokes. Here in" Death Proof "- a real tough" - said the creator of "Pulp Fiction", presenting his new film to journalists together starring Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Zoe Bell and Rose McGowan.

The film is stylized as category B horror films: for two hours the maniac Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) chases his victims in a killer car. The result is a road movie with typical Tarantino dialogues and scenes of violence. Bruce Willis, Udo Keer, Nicolas Cage and Robert Rodriguez have appeared in episodic roles. The latter, by the way, was a co-producer in the film. The most anticipated party of the festival took place at midnight - a banquet on the occasion of the premiere of "Proof of Death". Almost all the stars who came to Cannes gathered. Even Claudia Schiffer stopped by.

Finally, a sensation on a French scale was the arrival in Cannes of Alain Delon, who last climbed the Cannes stairs fifteen years ago, and last year officially announced that he would never again honor the festival with his presence (this was due to the fact that he was not invited participate in the previous, fiftieth anniversary of Cannes). But at the personal invitation of the director of the festival, Gilles Jacob, Delon nevertheless arrived in Cannes with his new girlfriend, model Bianca Di Sophia. Moreover, having forgiven all the insults, Delon said that he would like to head the jury of one of the upcoming Cannes festivals.