CANNES, France — As they are saying within the film enterprise, “the present should go on.” And so it did.
The Cannes Movie Pageant continued its closing ceremony regardless of a region-wide energy outage that crippled the city for a lot of the day. The Palais des Festivals is provided with mills and stored the festivities on observe.
“The Palais des Festivals has switched to an impartial energy provide, permitting all scheduled occasions and screenings, together with the closing ceremony, to proceed as deliberate and below regular circumstances,” the pageant mentioned in an announcement.
Energy had gone out round 10 a.m. and resumed round 3:30 p.m. native time. The closing ceremony was scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. native time, and began with out a hitch.
In the course of the energy outage luxurious boutiques and shops throughout the town have been closed, and eating places would settle for money solely, throwing a lot of the final day of the movie pageant into disarray as locals and pageant goers alike piled into the streets. Web and phone connections have been down.
The Hôtel Martinez, the place many celebrities prepare for the occasion, had a generator for the primary flooring and the elevators, however higher flooring have been darkish. Stylists reported utilizing telephone flashlights to see through the dressing course of.
However you couldn’t dim the lights for the celebs on the pink carpet.
Jury president Juliette Binoche departed from her Dior appears to be like with a sporty customized Prada outfit of a full-length midnight blue skirt with beading on the waist and a coordinated truncated bomber jacket that she zhuzhed up on the sleeves. Binoche cinched the skirt on the waist and added an informal twist with a white T-shirt with a pink collar. She completed the look with Chopard hoops.
Jury president Juliette Binoche in Prada on the closing ceremony.
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However Dior had a trio of Binoche’s fellow jurors on its roster, with Alba Rohrwacher, in a bubblegum pink full-length pouf skirt robe; Leila Slimani, in a grey and gold lace costume, and Halle Berry in a column costume with lace sleeves embroidered and accented with grey wick wool curlers from the spring 2025 couture assortment.
Berry and Rohrwacher each topped their Dior appears to be like with Chopard jewels.
Jury member Jeremy Sturdy in Lanvin.
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Fellow juror Jeremy Sturdy, who has been on a Loro Piana streak this pageant, closed Cannes in a customized smoky blue tuxedo by new Lanvin artistic director Peter Copping. The look was impressed by a chunk from the designer’s fall 2025 assortment introduced in January.
Elle Fanning wore a customized Chanel costume in a pale blue silke crepe with a sweeping tulle skirt cinched with a black bow on the waist, accomplished with Cartier jewels. The skirt was embellished with embroidered braids that took 400 hours to finish.
Elle Fanning in Chanel on the closing ceremony.
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Cate Blanchett, who was available to current the Palme d’Or prime prize, wore a customized Louis Vuitton costume and excessive jewellery from the home.
