Interesting and unexpected events at the Cannes Film Festival

Yesterday on the Cote d'Azur 68 Cannes Film Festival kicked offwhich will run until 24 May.

The largest international film festival is the most prestigious and widely reported event in the world of cinema art. Every year at least four thousand journalists gather in Cannes and all the social beau monde are world celebrities and film professionals.

Despite the impeccable organization of the film festival, which is allocated approximately 20 million euros, sometimes on the red carpet, under the scrutiny of journalists, there are very interesting and unexpected events for the public.

So, in 2012, at the premiere of the film “The Paperboy,” directed by Lee Daniels, a false jaw fell onto the red carpet. The unusual find on the path was discovered by festival security guards, who noted that, by all indications, it belonged to a man.

The 58 th Cannes Film Festival, which was held in 2005, is remembered by the appearance of Sophie Marceau. However, the audience was stunned by the far from elegant dress of the actress, and the confusion that occurred to her right on the red carpet. During the traditional defile of the Palace of the Film Festival, Marceau got into an amusing situation: one of the strapless silk dress of the actress slipped off her shoulder and bared her breasts.

Confusion Sophie Marceau

Under the skirt of America

In 2014, a scandal occurred involving a Ukrainian journalist who tried to climb under the skirt of Hollywood actress America Ferrera on the same “red carpet” in Cannes. The incident occurred during the premiere of the cartoon How to Train Your Dragon 2. Vitaly Serdyuk, who was subsequently arrested by the French police, tried to get under the fluffy skirt of an actress posing with his colleagues in front of journalists.

During a press conference dedicated to the screening of the film “Melancholia” at the film festival in 2011, the film’s director Lars von Trier made an unfortunate joke about the Nazis, Hitler and Jews. He stated that he sympathized with Hitler despite the fact that he was a terrible villain, and ended his monologue with the phrase “Well, yes, I’m a Nazi.” This joke cost Trier his presence at the festival, the organizers of which hastened to declare him persona non grata and asked him to immediately leave the festival.

Not princess

Last year's event was marked by a loud scandal that erupted after its opening. The reason was the film that launched the festival in 2014 - the work of Olivier Dunne with Nicole Kidman in the title role - “Princess of Monaco”. Critics booed the film that opened the festival, and devastating reviews appeared in the press. In particular, Time called the film stupid and awarded it the title of one of the most “trash” films in the history of television.

Princess of Monaco. Trailer

Whistled

In 2009, a scandal marked the premiere of Danish director Lars von Trier's film Antichrist at the Cannes Film Festival. The recognized master of auteur cinema tried to convey the tragedy of the couple who lost their only child and stopped believing in God through numerous scenes of violence. Most of those who attended the screening considered it provocative: the scenes of violence and material bordering on pornography were seen, the film was booed and ridiculed, and insults were heard from the audience towards the creators.

Antichrist. Trailer

irreversibility

The premiere of the film “Irreversible” with Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel in the lead roles also took place with a scandal. Even before the screening, Bellucci expressed fears in an interview that viewers would start leaving the film from the very first minutes because of the frank and brutal scenes of rape. The actress was right: many spectators left the screening of the film, but those who stayed and watched the film to the end gave the director a standing ovation after watching it. As a result, “Irreversible” was awarded a prize, after which a wave of indignation arose in the press against violence in cinema and the decision of the Cannes jury