The Naked (or is it, Nude) Truth

At last year’s Cannes Film Festival women, actors and others, on the red carpet were chastised for showing off their bodily parts.

What is the Cannes Film Festival’s problem with the female body?

https://fr.euronews.com/culture/2025/05/13/le-festival-de-cannes-interdit-la-nudite-sur-le-tapis-rouge-pour-des-raisons-de-decence

“Nudity has never been officially sanctioned at the festival, but Cannes’ dress code now specifies that “nudity is prohibited on the red carpet, as well as in any other area of ​​the festival” starting this year.”

What is the problem with women on the red carpet expressing themselves? It is a film festival, one that has had some fairly revealing films in and out of competition exhibition for quite some years.

Now if Thierry Frémaux and his festival cohorts were closet American Christian Nationalists fetishising hypocritically over various sexual conundrums, male-female whatever, I would understand.

Is Hypocrisy going to be name of this age? The Age of Hypocrites. Not so strange all the hypocrites seem to be old. Stylish younger generations don’t care how provocative their wear is. All’s fair in love and loonery at any film festival.

Semolina Pynes in Out of Competition on this matter: