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At Cannes, Politics, Penny-Pinching and Strict Red Carpet Rules Overshadow the Glitz, Good Times and Glamour
At the 2025 edition of Cannes, deals took longer too close, blowout parties were harder to find, and Trump was impossible to ignore.
Robert De Niro, who was honored with a lifetime achievement award, used his acceptance speech to blast Trump as a “philistine,” urging artists “to organize, to protest, and when there are elections, of course, to vote.” In her remarks, Juliette Binoche, who is overseeing the competition jury, drew attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and other hot-button issues. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague,” a love letter to Jean-Luc Godard and the merry band of French iconoclasts who transformed cinema in the 1960s, got a warm hug from the Cannes crowd. And the list of parties didn’t contain that one stop-at-nothing-to-attend blowout (see Elton John and Taron Egerton singing “Rocket Man” onstage in 2019 or the firework display that lit up the lavish “Solo: A Star Wars Story” bash the year before).
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