
Cannes Says It’s Female Friendly, Hollywood’s Leading Ladies Don’t Buy It
The 2015 Cannes Film Festival has been named the “Year of the Women” for its focus on women-driven films.

The 2015 Cannes Film Festival has been named the “Year of the Women” for its focus on women-driven films.

Officials at the Cannes Film Festival denied allegations this week that security had turned women away from red carpet screenings because they were not wearing high heels.

In what is now being referred to as “flatgate,” the Cannes Film Festival has come under fire for allegedly shunning women, even the elderly or those with medical conditions, from red carpet screenings because they opted to wear flat shoes over high heels.

Director Gus Van Sant’s new drama The Sea of Trees debuted to a crowd full of boos Friday at the Cannes Film Festival.

Woody Allen seemed pessimistic about trying his creative hand at television earlier this year, but nonetheless agreed to take on a new challenge. Months into the project, the director’s subtle negativity has turned to all-out defeatism.

Movie stars and film executives arriving in Cannes, France this week for the annual film festival now have added security, especially those arriving by yacht.

“When Cannes rolls out the red carpet May 13, it will also be on red alert,” quips the Hollywood Reporter. Security will be greatly heightened at the legendary film festival, not due to any specific threat, but because of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, and what the Reporter confusingly describes as “a subsequent series of several smaller attacks against religious targets.”

Director George Miller’s fourth Mad Max film, starring Tom Hardy, will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 14, a day ahead of its worldwide release.