Has Joe Alwyn paid a higher price than we thought for the end of his romance with Taylor Swift?
The British actor, who dated superstar singer Swift from 2016 to 2023, appears to be out of the cozy club run by Oscar-winning director Yorgos Lanthimos now that he and Taylor have split.
Lanthimos, the man behind The Favorite and Poor Things, was in Cannes promoting his new film Kinds Of Kindness, starring his muse, star Emma Stone, as well as others including Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe and Alwyn.
On Friday night last week, Stone, Alwyn and the rest of the cast walked the Palais’ famous red carpet. But he and Stone, who is Taylor Swift’s best friend, kept their distance.
Afterwards, there was a small party for the cast, crew and Searchlight bigwigs at the Carlton Hotel, attended by everyone who wanted to toast the new film.
Bad blood? Plemons, Lanthimos, Stone, Dafoe and Alwyn
Joe Alwyn (pictured) dated superstar singer Swift from 2016 to 2023
Everyone except Joe, of course. Instead, she turned up for late-night drinks and dancing at the Charles Finch filmmakers’ dinner in Antibes, which Barbie director Greta Gerwig also attended.
The next day there was a rather awkward photo shoot and press conference in which a laughing Stone became very close to Lanthimos, and Alwyn stood sadly on the sidelines.
It’s a shame, since Stone and Alywn have known each other since they met on the set of The Favorite in 2017.
It has since been announced that Stone is making another film with Lanthimos, called Bugonia. There is no role for Alwyn.
Kinds Of Kindness earned good reviews at Cannes, but some are disturbed by the rape of Stone’s character by Alwyn’s character and the large number of naked and unconscious women in the film. There’s also a scene where Stone cuts off some of his fingers, which wasn’t to everyone’s liking.
Speaking at Cannes, Alwyn, 33, said of the film: “You have to try not to unravel it too much.” You have to trust him (Lanthimos).
“It’s weird and strange and crazy and special, but one of the reasons I love his movies is because you feel it first, before you try to understand it all.”
Fans have speculated that some songs on Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, reflect bitterness over their breakup last year.
Prince Albert of Monaco is very proud of his Irish heritage, thanks to his late mother, actress Grace Kelly, whose grandfather was born in County Mayo. His Serene Highness sported a shamrock tie and lapel pin for the documentary Quintessentially Irish and also claimed Guinness was “the family drink.”
He said of his mother: ‘She was passionate about everything to do with Irish culture. She went out of her way and she took the time to explain these things to us. What she would be very proud of is creating the Princess Grace Irish Library. “It’s a wonderful way to celebrate my mother’s legacy.”
Prince Albert, whose wife Charlene is also of Irish descent, added: “Our treasure is a first edition of Ulysses. That’s a copy I’d like to finish one day… It’s a little difficult to finish in one sitting, so maybe once when I have more time…’
The film, which also stars Pierce Brosnan, Jeremy Irons and Usain Bolt, had a special screening at the Palace of Monaco this week.
Last year everyone was talking about Messi, the Border Collie in Anatomy of a Fall. This year, another dog, Cosmos (played by rescue dog Kodi), takes center stage in a Swiss film about a dog who is on trial for his life after biting three people.
Writer Laetitia Dosch conceived Dog On Trial as an allegory about how society treats women, as well as a commentary on animal rights. She says: ‘A woman has to behave in a certain way that society wants to see and that is not in my nature. That’s what’s happening to this dog: he bites because he protects the food from him like a wolf would.’
Writer Laetitia Dosch poses with rescue dog Kodi who plays Cosmos in Dog On Trial
You might think that Pretty Woman – the romance between a sex worker and a millionaire in 1990, when sexual politics were so different – is almost the last story Hollywood would want to revisit.
But Anora, starring rising actress Mikey Madison, does just that (albeit with a different tone and outcome) and is earning rave reviews for Madison’s brave and bold performance in the title role.
The 25-year-old American actress played Charles Manson acolyte Sadie Atkins in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Leonardo di Caprio memorably killed her with a flamethrower.
This new role was written specifically for her by director Sean Baker. Anora, or Ani, is a young woman of Uzbek descent who meets a handsome and very rich Russian young man at a Manhattan lapdance club where she works. Romance blossoms and they marry in Las Vegas, but her new husband is a raving coke addict who heads for the hills once his parents find out and send their goons to clean up the mess.
Madison says she can’t really relate to Ani, but adds, “I can’t say I’ve ever played a character that I feel close to me as a person.”
Anora, starring rising actress Mikey Madison (pictured), is earning rave reviews for Madison’s brave and bold performance in the title role.
The cast of Andrea Arnold’s drama Bird broke out into a line dance, to the tune of Cotton Eye Joe, on the beach after the film’s premiere, echoing what happens at the end of the film.
Arnold is renowned for her use of music both on film sets and in her finished films, and her brother served as DJ at the small but lively party.
The next day, one of the stars, Barry Keoghan, revealed that Arnold had sent all the actors a Spotify playlist, but had not been able to listen to it because he did not have the app. He added that he thought he was “a bad dancer”, which comes as news to those of us fascinated by his naked performance at the end of Saltburn.
The cast of Andrea Arnold’s drama Bird. From left to right: Jason Buda, Nykiya Adams, Andrea Arnold, Franz Rogowski and Barry Keoghan
The pointy-shouldered Schiaparelli dress that Demi Moore wore to the premiere of The Substance was so dramatic (and spectacularly asymmetrical) that organizers had to leave the seat to her left vacant during the film’s screening, so she wouldn’t get stabbed. someone.
Demi Moore Wears a Pointed-Shoulder Schiaparelli Dress at The Substance Premiere
AFTER ‘Dearth In Venice’, the label given to last summer’s film festival, which was short of stars thanks to the Hollywood actors’ strike, comes the parable on the legendary La Croisette in Cannes.
With the global film market down 20 percent from pre-pandemic levels and no sign of recovery, the spirit of spend-spend-spend appears to be a thing of the past.
Last year in Cannes, the troubled studio Warner Bros. threw a lavish party at the Hotel du Cap with lobster rolls, rivers of champagne, boss David Zaslav (in a cream suit) and Scarlett Johansson. In a time of layoffs, everything seemed a little Marie Antoinette. This year, everyone is insisting on keeping the parties “very small,” even Warner Bros. is doing so for Mad Max: Furiosa, which was held on the beach and co-hosted by Dior. One surprised guest reported being handed cubed carrots and celery sticks to nibble on that wing. Meanwhile, Sony’s lavish party at the Martinez Hotel last week featured wonderful sushi, but wine instead of champagne.
Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault attend the Kering Women In Motion Awards 2024
And Wednesday’s Vanity Fair party was held on the beach, rather than, as was the case in the past, at the Hotel du Cap.
The only exception was Kering’s Women In Motion party, which is paid for by the luxury fashion group and managed to avoid the cold headwinds. Some 250 guests dined under the stars on the Place de la Castre, hosted by Francois-Henri Pinault, the head of Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga. . . and husband of movie star Salma Hayek.