Cannes Film Festival: See the red carpet photos from week 1

CANNES, France (AP) — Hollywood royalty is again on the Cannes Movie Pageant for its annual celebration of cinema alongside the French Riviera.

Premieres deliver a chic parade of stars nightly and moments that grow to be indelible Cannes pictures, whether or not it’s Francis Ford Coppola’s return to the Palais des Festivals or French actor Judith Godrèche and different actors posing with their arms over their mouths to draw consideration to France’s burgeoning #MeToo motion.

There’s time for levity, too, like Anya Taylor-Pleasure saluting her “Furiosa” director, George Miller, or the arrival of Messi, the canine “Anatomy of a Fall” star who carried out methods for photographers and served as a bridge to final yr’s standout pageant.

Daytime photocalls can grow to be playgrounds for stars and photographers alike, like when Nic Cage tossed his hat whereas selling “The Surfer.” (Hats have been a go-to accent this yr, worn by Coppola and Giancarlo Esposito on the “Megalopolis” premiere; Meryl Streep, an honorary Palme d’Or recipient, opted for one for her photocall.)

Filmmakers reward Cannes for the way in which it celebrates movies and the worldwide platform it supplies. So it’s solely becoming that Coppola returned, 45 years after his “Apocalypse Now” swept by means of the pageant, and so did Paul Schrader, who wrote the 1976 Palme d’or Or winner “Taxi Driver.”

Miller, too, has been a vocal fan of the Cannes pageant since serving as a juror and has used it to launch a number of movies.

“I received addicted it to easily as a result of it’s like movie camp,” he says. “It’s sort of optimum cinema, actually.”

And there’s nonetheless one other week to go.

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