It’s safety first as Cannes gets set for festival
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CANNES yesterday began rolling out the red carpet as stars including Kristen Stewart and Blake Lively swept into the French town for the world’s top film festival whose dazzle is being tested by stiff security measures.
On foot, horseback and motorbikes, police patrolled the Croisette, a strip of beach lined with luxury stores and headed by the Palais des Festivals, the main venue for the extravaganza, which gets under way tonight.
A small army of workers carefully unrolled strips of the 60-metre red carpet that will host stars such as Julia Roberts, Jodi Foster, Sean Penn, Robert De Niro, Kirsten Dunst, Charlize Theron and George Clooney over the 12-day festival.
Hundreds of festival-goers, their official badges on display, thronged the streets, elbow-to-elbow with selfie-snapping tourists.
The population of the picturesque Riviera town is set to nearly triple to about 200,000 as film producers, industry workers, actors and tourists roll in to soak up the glamor, sell films, network and party.
The 69th Cannes film festival has created a security headache worthy of a movie script for French authorities who have highlighted an unprecedented terror threat six months after the attacks that left 130 people dead in Paris.
“We must keep in mind as we prepare to open this festival, that we are faced with a risk which has never been as high,” Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday.
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