So far at Cannes: De Niro gets a Palme d'or, Trump gets criticized, nudity gets banned

Cannes officials updated the movie festival's formal codification this twelvemonth to prohibition afloat nudity and "voluminous" clothing. Above, histrion Wan QianHui arrives for the opening ceremonial connected Tuesday.

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The 78th Cannes Film Festival kicked disconnected connected Tuesday successful the French Riviera, wherever guests were asked to formal much modestly.

"For decency reasons, nudity is prohibited connected the Red Carpet, arsenic good arsenic successful immoderate different country of the Festival," according to the 2025 festival's website. "Voluminous outfits, successful peculiar those with a ample train, that hinder the due travel of postulation of guests and complicate seating successful the theatre are not permitted."

The formal codification seemingly amazed Cannes assemblage subordinate Halle Berry. During a festival property conference, the histrion told reporters she had to marque a last-minute alteration to the outfit she planned to deterioration astatine the opening nighttime gala: "I had an astonishing formal by [Gaurav] Gupta that I cannot deterioration contiguous due to the fact that it's excessively large of a train," she said. "I'm not going to interruption the rules …The nudity portion is besides astir apt a bully rule."

The festival besides began a week aft President Trump announced that helium wanted to impose a 100% tariff connected films made extracurricular of the U.S. Studios, streamers, filmmakers and different players successful the amusement satellite are disquieted astir what immoderate changes would mean for the planetary movie and TV industry.

"At this stage, it's inactive excessively aboriginal to gauge the imaginable interaction of these announcements," Cannes president Iris Knobloch told Variety. "However, I sincerely anticipation the planetary movie manufacture won't beryllium paralyzed by caution oregon uncertainty. The assemblage is inactive recovering from the profound disruptions caused by the pandemic, labour strikes, and much recently, the wildfires successful Los Angeles… Any system, successful my view, should promote practice — not contention astatine the disbursal of others."

Robert De Niro accepts Palme D'or

During the opening ceremony, histrion Leonardo DiCaprio presented Robert De Niro with the prestigious Palme d'Or award. The 81-year-old, two-time Academy Award victor was honored for his legendary roles successful films specified arsenic The Godfather Part II (1974), Raging Bull (1980), Taxi Driver (1976) and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).

During his speech, De Niro criticized President Trump, who helium called an "enemy of the arts."

"You can't enactment a terms connected creativity, but seemingly you tin enactment a tariff connected it," De Niro said. "Of course, this is unacceptable. All these attacks are unacceptable, and this isn't conscionable an American problem. It's a planetary one."

For the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row, a tiny radical of the festival's freelance workers concisely protested extracurricular the opening ceremony. The enactment was organized by the French labour corporate Sous les écrans la dèche (Broke Behind the Screens), which aims to amended moving conditions and to regain "intermittent employee" presumption for thousands of French TV and movie workers astatine Cannes, according to the group's website.

This year's festival opened with a three-film salute to Ukraine, and the premiere of Amélie Bonnin's French romance Leave One Day.

Notably absent was a festival regular, French movie prima Gérard Depardieu, who was conscionable recovered blameworthy of sexually assaulting 2 women connected a 2021 movie set. He was fixed an 18-month suspended situation sentence. Depardieu's lawyer says his lawsuit volition appeal.