 | | |
Vive le festival!
The 57th Cannes film festival runs from May 12 - 23. We'll be adding the latest pictures to this page as the party progresses.
|
| |
 | | Lo! She dwindles not
Last year she said she'd 'dwindle away'. This year she's gazing down at festivalgoers from posters for The Stepford Wives. Festival favourite Nicole Kidman's not dwindling anywhere, it seems.
Photo: Patrick Gardin / AP
|
| |
 | | L'arrivée du président
Quentin Tarantino signs autographs as he arrives at Nice airport for the festival. He is jury president this year.
Photo: Patrick Gardin / AP
|
| |
 | | Les flics
French riot police patrol outside the Palais des Festivals. Jobbing actors and stagehands have threatened to disrupt the festival in a dispute over unemployment benefit, and police will be keen to minimise disruption, as well as guarding against the threat of terrorism.
Photo: Lionel Cironneau / AP
|
| |
 | | Vive le festival
Townspeople demonstrate cheerfully their support for the festival on the eve of its opening day, hedging their bets with a second banner expressing solidarity with the groups who are threatening to protest.
Photo: Lionel Cironneau / AP
|
| |
 | | Le tapis rouge
The pristine red carpet outside the Grand Theatre Lumiere immediately before the opening ceremony and its first screening, Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education.
Photo: Pascal Le Segretain / Getty
|
| |
 | | Protestors take the carpet
Performance artists protest against French unemployment benefits as planned - the legend on their backs reads "negotiation".
Photo: Lionel Cironneau / AP
|
| |
 | | Almodóvar faces the press
The Spanish director, whose movie opened the 57th Cannes festival, gives one of several brief interviews as he arrives for the opening ceremony.
Photo: Carlo Allegri / Getty
|
| |
And now, some frocks
|
|
 | | Gong Li, Aishwarya Rai and Laetitia Casta
Here they are, representing the far east, the subcontinent, and the Mediterranean. We like to think of ourselves as somewhere between the three.
Photo: Michel Euler / AP
|
| |
 | | Tilda Swinton
She's representing the British film industry, in her inimitable style, and sitting on the festival jury.
Photo: Ian West / PA
|
| |
 | | Kathleen Turner
Yes that's right. Her out of Body Heat, the woman who inspired Jessica Rabbit. Now an elder stateswoman of film, she's also sitting on the jury.
Photo: Ian West / PA
|
| |
 | | Alexandra Kerry
Ms Kerry is the 30-year-old daughter of US presidential candidate John Kerry. She's in Cannes with a short film about Vietnam, which is a helpful reminder that her father fought in the war, unlike his opponent. We're not sure how this dress is supposed to help.
Photo: Laurent Rebours / AP
|
| |
 | | Ornella Muti and Rupert Everett
The pair are appropriately enough pictured arriving at a screening of a new French film, Comme Une Image, being promoted in English as Look At Me.
Photo: Patrick Gardin / AP
|
| |
Frocks over. Now some photocalls
|
|
 | | Eric Bana, Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom
Starring, respectively, as Hector, Achilles and Paris in Troy, the three men introduced their film to an enthusiastic audience.
Photo: Michel Euler / AP
|
| |
 | | Zhang Ziyi and Tony Leung
The Chinese actors were introducing their new film 2046, by Wong Kar-Wai, who also directed Leung in In the Mood for Love. It caused concern on the Croisette when the film reels arrived only hours before its premiere.
Photo: Michel Euler / AP
|
| |
 | | Charlize Theron and Geoffrey Rush
With the glow of Oscar still upon her, Theron joined the publicity round for The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. Rush plays Sellers, while Theron takes the part of Britt Ekland, to whom Sellers was married in the 1960s.
Photo: Michel Euler / AP
|
| |
 | | Tom Hanks and Joel Coen
Hanks stars in the Coen brothers' new film The Ladykillers, an Ealing remake which is screening in competition.
Photo: Michel Euler / AP
|
| |
 | | Michael Moore
The director's anti-Bush polemic Farhenheit 9/11was screened to general critical acclaim, after a publicity flurry about whether or not it would find a US distributor. It has.
Photo: Anthony Harvey / PA
|
| |
 | | Le fanclub
He may be a fat bearded grumpy man, but these ladies at least love Michael Moore.
Photo: Laurent Rebours / AP
|
| |
Photocalls over. Now some ostriches
|
|
 | | Des autruches
It's not clear why these ostrich puppets (not real, happily) are dancing among the crowd watching the red carpet. But who needs a reason?
Photo: Laurent Rebours / AP
|
| |
Ostriches over. Now a publicity stunt
|
|
 | | Sean Young
Quicker than you could say 'revive a flagging career', Young was in the water. She's in town to promote A Killer Within, an independent thriller.
Photo: Ian West / PA
|
Cannes 2004