Cannes officers up to date the movie competition’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 company have been requested to decorate extra modestly.
“For decency causes, nudity is prohibited on the Pink Carpet, in addition to in every other space of the Competition,” based on the 2025 competition’s web site. “Voluminous outfits, specifically these with a big prepare, that hinder the right circulation of site visitors of company and complicate seating within the theater aren’t permitted.”
The gown code apparently shocked Cannes jury member Halle Berry. Throughout a competition 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 be in all probability an excellent rule.”
The competition additionally started every week after President Trump introduced that he wished to impose a 100% tariff on movies made exterior of the U.S. Studios, streamers, filmmakers and different gamers within the leisure world are nervous 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 influence of those bulletins,” Cannes president Iris Knobloch informed Selection. “Nonetheless, I sincerely hope the worldwide movie trade will not be paralyzed by warning or uncertainty. The sector continues 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, for my part, ought to encourage cooperation — not competitors on the expense of others.”
Robert De Niro accepts Palme D’or
Through the opening ceremony, actor Leonardo DiCaprio offered Robert De Niro with the distinguished Palme d’Or award. The 81-year-old, two-time Academy Award winner was honored for his legendary roles in movies corresponding 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 may’t put a worth on creativity, however apparently you possibly can 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 world one.”
For the second yr in a row, a small group of the competition’s freelance employees briefly protested exterior 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 employees at Cannes, based on the group’s web site.
This yr’s competition 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 competition common, French movie star Gérard Depardieu, who was simply discovered responsible of sexually assaulting two ladies on a 2021 movie set. He was given an 18-month suspended jail sentence. Depardieu’s lawyer says his shopper will enchantment.
