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Cannes denies enforcing high-heel rule on red carpet

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AFP-Relaxnews
Published
May 19, 2015

Cannes Film Festival organisers were forced Tuesday to deny a report that they were enforcing a strict high-heel rule for women on its legendary red carpet.

In what was meant to be women's year at cinema's top showcase, an article in a trade magazine about women allegedly turned away from a premiere for wearing "rhinestone flats" sparked a storm of protest on Twitter.

French actress and member of the Feature Film jury Sophie Marceau AFP PHOTO / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT


Britain's Screen Daily said that "a handful of women in their 50s were turned away" by Cannes ushers from Sunday night's screening of the lesbian love story "Carol" starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

Some of those rejected had "medical conditions", according to Screen, which called it "a bad PR move for the push for gender equality".

As the story sparked hundreds of angry tweets, festival director Thierry Fremaux quickly took to Twitter to set the record straight.

"The rumour that the festival requires high heels for the women on the steps is baseless," he wrote, referring to the entrance of the festival's main venue.

However the report prompted stars at the festival to take a stand.

Emily Blunt, star of the drug-war thriller "Sicario", called the purported flat-shoe ban "disappointing" and said she preferred comfortable footwear.

"Everyone should wear flats to be honest. We shouldn't wear high heels anyway," she said, when asked about the report.

"That's very disappointing. You think there's these new waves of equality."

"Sicario"'s Canadian director, Denis Villeneuve, joked that he and the film's co-stars, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin, would "walk the stairs in high heels" late Tuesday in solidarity at the red-carpet premiere.

Cannes has responded to frequent allegations of sexism in the past by this year inviting two women (out of 19) filmmakers to the competition, opening the festival with Emmanuelle Bercot's French drama "Standing Tall" and giving a honorary Palme d'Or to auteur Agnes Varda.

Several of the stories in the main competition also centre on women, including the current frontrunner, "Carol", starring Cate Blanchett.

The big premieres at Cannes are governed by a strict dress code of black-tie attire for men and formal dress for women.
 

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