No Cannes Film Festival without controversy or scandal. Each year brings its share of drama on the red carpet. But beyond the clashes confined to the small middle of the cinema, this edition was peppered with several happenings and other demonstrations, thus inviting very political demands from the steps of the Palace to the streets of Cannes. All the cameras in the world are trained on the Croisette during these two weeks, a favorable context for getting your message across. See also on Konbini Ukraine in blood The image has gone around the world. This Sunday, May 21, during the climb of the steps for the film Acide, a woman dressed in a dress in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, yellow and blue, stops on the red carpet, turns around and, like so many others , poses for the photographers. But here she is rummaging through her cleavage and pulling out, in each hand, two bags of fake blood which she brandishes above her head. After some trial and error, she manages to tear them and finds herself smeared with hemoglobin. She was immediately evacuated by the security services. Her identity has not been revealed, and she carried no other message than this image, as symbolic as it is striking, left after her visit. Baby on board A few days before, for the screening of Catherine Corsini’s film Le Retour, a activist from the radical feminist collective Scum burst onto the red carpet. Pregnant, she is dressed in a red dress, of which a removable part on the front reveals her belly on which are painted a barcode and the word “surrogacy” (surrogacy, in French). She too was exfiltrated, with a fist, far from the festivities. On its networks, the group then resumes the video of its intervention with the hashtag #STOPSELLINGUS (“stop selling us”) to oppose surrogacy, considered, for these activists, as a commodification of the body of women. activist was present, last year, on this same carpet, where she appeared this time dressed in simple panties covered with fake blood, and on her chest, painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, one could read: “Stop raping us” (“stop raping us”). A message dedicated to denouncing the rapes and “sexual torture” committed by the Russian forces against Ukrainian women since the start of the war. The activists, belonging to the very young collective Tapis rouge anger noire, made up of filmmakers and cinema technicians, denounce “the complicity of the Festival towards sexual aggressors and harassers. , physical and moral”. On the walls, messages spelled out in black on a white background with A4 size sheets: “Under the carpet violence”, “Patriarcanes”, “Oppressed team, nominated film” or even a laconic “Shame”. From the platform of Adèle Haenel announcing her departure from the world of cinema, to the accusations of rape and sexual assault concerning Gérard Depardieu, or even the very controversial presence of Johnny Depp at the opening of the festival, the reasons for their anger do not not missing.Dress discriminating codeSunday May 21 again, Leah, actress, was delighted to attend Martin Scorsese’s new film Killers of the Flower Moon. Having been unable to obtain a ticket in advance for this highly requested screening, she heads for the “Last minute” line, the last chance option. Being disabled, she has priority to enter the room. And even there, places are expensive: there are only six seats reserved for people with reduced mobility in the Palais des Festivals. But she will not even have this opportunity since a member of the security, noting that she had sneakers on her feet, the only shoes she can put on, refuses her passage. The Cannes dress code — black tuxedo for men, long dresses and heels for women — is not only strict, it is binary and discriminatory. Unless you are Kristen Stewart who, in 2018, had taken off her Louboutins to climb the stairs barefoot (shocking!), impossible to circumvent this rule from another time. Cut (gas and electricity)! This Tuesday May 23, several restaurants on La Croisette were deprived of gas and electricity. The tile, when it is necessary to feed all these beautiful people who storm the terraces and straw huts of Cannes during the festival. The central police station had no more juice either. For several hours, it was a blackout. The action was claimed by the CGT which protests against the pension reform. Three GRDF and Enedis employees were caught red-handed and taken into police custody. Along with these cuts, a hundred CGT demonstrators were gathered that same day around Cannes station.
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