Cannes officers up to date the movie pageant’s costume code this 12 months 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 visitors have been requested to decorate extra modestly.
“For decency reasons, nudity is prohibited on the Red Carpet, as well as in any other area of the Festival,” in accordance with the 2025 pageant’s web site. “Voluminous outfits, in particular those with a large train, that hinder the proper flow of traffic of guests and complicate seating in the theater are not permitted.”
The costume code apparently shocked 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 evening gala: “I had an amazing dress by [Gaurav] Gupta that I cannot wear tonight because it’s too big of a train,” she mentioned. “I’m not going to break the rules …The nudity part is also probably a good rule.”
The pageant additionally started every week after President Trump introduced that he wished to impose a 100% tariff on movies made outdoors of the U.S. Studios, streamers, filmmakers and different gamers within the leisure world are frightened about what any modifications would imply for the worldwide movie and TV trade.
“At this stage, it’s still too early to gauge the potential impact of these announcements,” Cannes president Iris Knobloch informed Selection. “However, I sincerely hope the global film industry won’t be paralyzed by caution or uncertainty. The sector is still recovering from the profound disruptions caused by the pandemic, labor strikes, and more recently, the wildfires in Los Angeles… Any system, in my view, should encourage cooperation — not competition at 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 comparable 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 arts.”
“You can’t put a price on creativity, but apparently you can put a tariff on it,” De Niro mentioned. “Of course, this is unacceptable. All these attacks are unacceptable, and this isn’t just an American problem. It’s a global one.”
For the second 12 months 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 circumstances and to regain “intermittent employee” standing for hundreds of French TV and movie staff at Cannes, in accordance with the group’s web site.
This 12 months’s pageant opened with a three-film salute to Ukraine, and the premiere of Amélie Bonnin’s French romance Depart One Day.
Notably absent was a pageant 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 consumer will enchantment.
