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The 19 Best-Dressed Stars at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival

The 19 Best-Dressed Stars at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Published by Sam Flores

Two couples have made this list: Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin Sprouse, who revealed her pregnancy when she wore an ethereal Miu Miu frock on their first night out at the festival. And yet I was most convinced by their matching Karl Lagerfeld tuxedo looks—Palvin Sprouse looked terrific in a tuxedo shirt, black skirt, and a silk cummerbund that framed her growing belly. Alexa Chung and Tom Sturridge made an argument in favor of his-and-hers dressing in Anderson’s Dior—not matchy-matchy, yet equally appealing. And speaking of Sturridge in Dior, Charlotte Le Bon wore a similar men’s Dior tuxedo on the red carpet, which is Anderson’s signature for black tie—no tie, add a scarf. Bella Hadid, the super model and internet-annointed queen of Cannes, wore a fantastic custom Prada dress that reminded me why she’s such a magnetic figure. It was a simple enough dress, and yet she looked like a star. See what I mean when I say style? And of course, at Cannes, it’s all about the movie stars: Ruth Negga and Taylor Russell …

2026 Cannes Film Festival: See All The Winners

2026 Cannes Film Festival: See All The Winners

Published by Sam Flores

After 12 days and nights, the 79th Cannes Film Festival ends today with its awards ceremony, during which its nine-person jury will hand out honors including the highly coveted Palme d’Or. Led by South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, the jury—directors Chloe Zhao, Laura Wandel, and Diego Cespedes, screenwriter Paul Laverty, and actors Demi Moore, Isaach de Bankole, Stellan Skarsgård, and Ruth Negga—will also name the best director, actress, actor, and screenplay, at Cannes 2026, among other awards. French actress Eye Haidara will host the closing ceremony, a full circle moment for the Furies star, as she also hosted the opening ceremony on May 12. While many have high hopes for films such as Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s lauded The Black Ball and Lukas Dhont’s Coward, one Cannes dream was crushed before the ceremony even began: Barbra Streisand, who was set to receive an honorary Palme d’Or, is skipping the ceremony due to a knee injury, she announced last week. Other recipients of the honorary award this year include Peter Jackson and John Travolta. Follow …

Princess Diana’s Nieces Lady Amelia Spencer and Lady Eliza Spencer Shine at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Princess Diana’s Nieces Lady Amelia Spencer and Lady Eliza Spencer Shine at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Published by Sam Flores

Lady Eliza Spencer et Lady Amelia Spencer au 79e Festival de Cannes, le 21 mai 2026.Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Getty Images Last year, the pair caused a sensation on the Cannes red carpet, appearing in coordinated strapless gowns from the wedding dress collection designed by Vera Wang for Pronovias. Their eldest sister, Lady Kitty Spencer, took to the steps on the same evening in an electric purple gown. Amelia and Liza are well-known as socialites in the UK, and also work as models. The daughters of Charles Spencer, Diana Spencer’s younger brother, and his first wife, Victoria Lockwood (the ninth Earl Spencer married his fourth wife, archaeologist Cat Jarman, last week in Arizona), the twins are also lucky in love: Amelia married sports coach Greg Mallett in March 2023, in a grand ceremony in the vineyards of South Africa. Her sister accepted a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Channing Millerd—a friend of her brother-in-law—last July. Originally published by Vanity Fair France Source link

A Slow-Burn Border Town Thriller

A Slow-Burn Border Town Thriller

Published by Daniella Wilson

For those who have seen German director Valeska Grisebach’s well-received 2017 third feature Western, they know that the titles of her movies can be deliberately misleading. Set on a stalled construction site in which nothing much happens, although there’s always a fair amount of tension boiling just beneath the surface, the film was an exercise in dramatic restraint that set up a western-style showdown that never came — nor was it ever really supposed to. The Dreamed Adventure (Das Geträumte Abenteuer), a gritty, chatty small-town thriller that premiered in competition in Cannes, makes the misdirection of its title clear from the opening sequence. Tracking an aging driver, Said (Syuleyman Letifov), as he steers his busted old sedan down a highway, then down a bunch of broken-down roads, finally making his way into a tiny frontier city that looks like it was left to rot back in the late 1980s, there is definitely nothing dreamy about the film’s principal setting. The Dreamed Adventure The Bottom Line Intriguing and meandering. Venue: Cannes Film Festival (Competition)Cast: Yana Radeva, …

Netflix Buys Cannes Film ‘The Black Ball,’ With Penelope Cruz, Glenn Close

Netflix Buys Cannes Film ‘The Black Ball,’ With Penelope Cruz, Glenn Close

Published by Daniella Wilson

Netflix has acquired Cannes Film Festival competition title The Black Ball (La Bola Negra), featuring Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close in supporting roles, for the U.S. THR confirmed the deal, which Goodfellas negotiated for the filmmakers, on Saturday.  The Spanish-language movie, directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, a creative duo, and former couple, known in their native country as Los Javis, world premiered at Cannes on Thursday evening to a thunderous and lengthy standing ovation. La Bola Negra is the creative duo’s first feature since 2017’s Holy Camp!  It tells the story of three men in three different periods — 1932, 1937 and 2017 — connected by the last works of the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. Elastica will release the film in Spain in October, with co-producer Le Pacte handling the theatrical release in France.  “The film is a consideration of so much lost gay history, an acknowledgment of what it must have been for men of a dangerous and repressive era to find themselves helplessly drawn to one another, war and other horrors informing their lives but failing …

Hafsia Herzi in Home-Invasion Hell

Hafsia Herzi in Home-Invasion Hell

Published by Daniella Wilson

Lean, mean and frequently terrifying, The Birthday Party (Histoires de la nuit) is a home-invasion thriller in the vein of films like Funny Games and Speak No Evil, even if it stops well short of the sadistic shocks of either of them. Adapted from a French bestseller by Laurent Mauvignier, writer-director Léa Mysius’ third feature shares its remote setting and appetite for darkness with her 2022 fantasy drama The Five Devils, though it’s more cohesive than that scattershot genre-bender. A pileup of movie-ish improbabilities in the climactic act notwithsanding, the new film is a taut nail-biter with a strong cast. The family put through the wringer of one long hellish night are the Bergognes — hard-working Thomas (Bastien Bouillon), who runs the small dairy farm where they live in rural Western France; his wife Nora (Hafsia Herzi), who gets a 40th birthday surprise when she’s named head of town-planning at her office job; and their smart preteen daughter, Ida (Tawba El Gharchi).  The Birthday Party The Bottom Line Highly watchable, though needs a new third act. Venue: Cannes Film Festival (Competition)Cast: Hafsia …

Cristian Mungiu on Fjord with Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve

Cristian Mungiu on Fjord with Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve

Published by Daniella Wilson

Nearly two decades after winning the Palme d’Or with 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), an abortion thriller set in Communist-era Romania, Cristian Mungiu is back in Cannes with another challenging, potentially hotly divisive film about the clash between progressive and conservative values and what it means to live in a free society. In Fjord, a Romanian Evangelical family, headed by father Mihai (Sebastian Stan) and mother Lisbet (Renate Reinsve), moves to Norway, only to be confronted by local welfare authorities, who view their traditional child-rearing methods — including occasional corporal punishment — as child abuse. The legal trial that follows becomes as much about their beliefs as about the alleged crimes committed. Fjord is Mungiu’s first film made outside Romania, and his first shot (at least partially) in English, but the film echoes themes — of globalization, cultural conflict and the divide between rich and poor, East and West, traditional and progressive — that define his work. The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Mungiu in Cannes about the real-life inspiration behind the film, working with …

All the Looks From the amfAR Gala Cannes

All the Looks From the amfAR Gala Cannes

Published by Sam Flores

As the Cannes Film Festival 2026 begins to wind down, the amfAR Gala Cannes is one of the last opportunities to make a lasting impression on the red carpet. On Thursday, the annual fundraising event returns to the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, with Geena Davis as host and a glamorous guest list. The Academy Award winner is just one of many stars associated with this year’s amfAR Gala, as the long list of event chairs spans the worlds of film, television, and fashion. Director Pedro Almodóvar—whose new tragicomedy, Bitter Christmas, premiered during the film festival—Pamela Anderson, Patricia Arquette, Angela Bassett, Rachel Brosnahan, Sofia Carson, Billy Crudup, Naomi Watts, Emma D’Arcy, Colman Domingo, Elizabeth Hurley, Scarlett Johansson, Heidi Klum, Eva Longoria, Kevin McClatchy, Demi Moore, Coco Rocha, Carine Roitfeld, Jeffrey Wright, and Michelle Yeoh are all event chairs, supporting the organization that has raised more than $950 million for HIV/AIDS research. After guests strike a pose on the red carpet, the evening’s festivities begin. This year’s entertainment includes performances by Robbie Williams, Zara Larsson, and PinkPantheress. Below, …