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CANNES FILM FESTIVAL organisers have been forced 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.
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.
Asif Kapadia, director of Senna and Amy, a new film about Amy Winehouse’s life, said his wife had trouble getting in:
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.
© – AFP 2015, additional reporting by Nicky Ryan
It’s a job in which fitness is crucial to their ability to perform the job and so yea there should be a huge emphasis on actually having a workforce capable of carrying out their job.
If you ask me fitness tests should also be a part of regular office jobs too, we should live in a world where it isn’t such a horrible thing to be encouraged to be as healthy as possible.
Proper order
Sure all the Police Chief has to worry about is making sure he fits behind his desk. When was the last time a chief led from the front and ran anywhere?
Apparently you didn’t read the article ?
Yeah I think that the Chiefs point! Even he could pass it
I wonder what percentage of Journal commentators would pass. .
Saw 3 undercover chappies running after a lad down the quays in Dublin last year…needless to say, he was able to literally walk away after 300 yards of chasing as our Finest were doubled over, breathless and verging on collapse…funny to watch, awful to contemplate as our alleged protectors!!!
I’d say that’s a lie
Nope…have it on video actually Jayo:-). 3rd Dec 2014 @ 15.38 to 15.41…Look at it when I need a laugh…
What an interning life you must lead Randle!
The unions here will have to draft up a Waddling Road agreement.
Waddling fat piggies
Was in UK recently & I saw cops wearing beards & glasses which made them to look like an idiot.
Cool story.
Here’s mine: I saw a nun buying ice cream today. It was funny.
It’s a small percentage who are unfit. Cast your memories back into ages past, in a time before smart watches, and the heroic deeds of some cork based gardaí – http://www.thejournal.ie/tralee-jewellery-theft-1162501-Nov2013/
Fat piggy couldn’t run fast or far enough
Do AGS have an annual fitness test?
No.
Everytime I see some of the met police’s finest there’s always a couple of fat ones!
Bloody right he is to!
I thought it was the wolf who huffed and puffed!
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