Photos: Cannes Film Festival's red carpet under Covid-19, glamour gets unmasked

For almost all people who has come to the Cannes Film Festival after months in varied levels of lockdown and warning, the transition is head-spinning. Even in regular years, Cannes is an onslaught. But this time, plunging into full-capacity theaters and teeming red carpets is like getting into one other world. The pandemic is much from invisible at Cannes. A destructive Covid-19 take a look at is required each 48 hours for even these vaccinated — until they acquired their pictures within the European Union. Moviegoers put on masks indoors. Everything is a little bit muted. Usually well-booked motels have vacancies. Screenings that will sometimes go away a whole lot queueing outdoors do not refill. The typical tuxedoed ticket-seekers praying for a handout have been pushed away from the Palais, the competition hub, to clear house. But in locations just like the Cannes red carpet, life is nearly regular — if “normal” can ever apply to a stretch of carpet the place coteries of stars drift in each few hours like parade floats. Glamour has been unmasked, possibly greater than some other time within the final yr and a half of pandemic.