It’s Cannes Film Festival time again, which means that the days are longer, warmer, and, for the hot, rich, famous, and most fortunate, spent rubbing shoulders and sipping wine on the French Riviera. Keep up if you dare, because they’re about to get very busy.
Wednesday, May 13
Dame Joan Collins, Isabella Rossellini, and Laurent Lafitte kick things off at a luncheon for their new film, The Duchess. Then, in the evening, the cast of Parallel Tales, the new French-language film from Oscar nominee Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman), will celebrate at a dinner on the beach, with Veuve Clicquot flowing; the film features Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney, Adam Bessa, and Catherine Deneuve. Later still, Mubi and Plan B Entertainment’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma—directed by Jane Schoenbrun and starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson—toasts its premiere with Up Provence until the early hours of the morning.
Thursday, May 14
Law Roach will be a guest of honor at a Magnum fête following the ice cream company’s inaugural runway show. Kering, which owns luxury brands including Gucci, Balenciaga, and Saint Laurent, will gather guests that same night at the Carlton hotel for a women-in-film celebration set to be attended by Julianne Moore and Salma Hayek Pinault—who happens to be married to Kering’s own François-Henri Pinault. Nespresso joins the mix with Brut.
Friday, May 15
On Friday, Jordan Firstman (I Love LA, also starring Rachel Sennott) rings in the premiere of Club Kid—which he wrote, directed, and acts in, alongside Diego Calva and Cara Delevingne—with Código Tequila and Rendez-Vous. Meanwhile, YouTube and the French magazine Gala throw their own affair.
Saturday, May 16
Saturday gets crowded. Cannes Film Festival president Iris Knobloch and Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne will be honored at an intimate lunch, which the lucky few who made the guest list will access by way of private chopper. Then, James Gray’s tense new family drama, Paper Tiger, starring Adam Driver, Miles Teller, and Scarlett Johansson, celebrates with Patrón. Vanity Fair and Meta will bring back Tetou—the iconic haunt where Karl Lagerfeld and VF France used to throw one of the festival’s buzziest parties—with a bang.
Sunday, May 17
Darren Walker and Anonymous Content celebrate three (!) of their films—In Waves, Parallel Tales, and Victoria Psycho—while Vanity Fair and Don Julio host a blowout beach party to ring in Ron Howard’s ode to photographer Richard Avedon until midnight. Korean film Hope by Na Hong-jin, a top contender for the Palme d’Or, takes over from there. Roberto Cavalli joins the late-night circuit as well.