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Emirates Woman
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Emirates Woman
In pics: Hande Erçel stuns in a gorgeous gown at Cannes 2025
Fashion by Sarah Joseph 3 hours ago Hande Erçel needs no introduction. However, in case you don't know about the multifaceted star, Erçel made an impossible-to-miss entrance to the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. The Turkish actress was seen in a stunning Giambattista Valli Paris dress complemented by plumes. She paired the look with standout jewellery pieces from Pomellato. Overall, The feather-trimmed peplum and hemline gave the gown a sense of movement and fun, while the accented shawl added that delicious dash of old Hollywood drama. The pink strapless gown hailed from the Giambattista Valli Fall 2024 Haute Couture collection. She also gave Barbicore a spin at the Balmain dinner where she was spotted in a Balmian pink dress, paired with Pomellato jewellery and Giambattista Valli heels. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hande Erçel (@handemiyy) What is the Cannes 2025 theme? The 2025 Cannes Film Festival, held from May 13 to 24, did not announce an official theme, but a clear focus emerged through the films showcased: a celebration of cultural specificity and authenticity in storytelling. This year's selections highlighted local identity and rooted narratives, contrasting the homogenized, location-flexible nature of mainstream Hollywood productions. Films such as Partir un Jour and The Sound of Falling emphasized the importance of place and community, while others tackled weighty themes like historical memory, justice, and identity. Notable examples included The Disappearance of Josef Mengele and Two Prosecutors, which delved into collective remembrance and accountability. Collectively, Cannes 2025 underscored a thematic current of grounding cinema in the specific, the personal, and the politically resonant. This year was less about rigid dress codes and more about individuality. Whether it's through daring cuts and vibrant hues. So, swipe through the gallery to see details of each look from Hande Erçel: – For more on luxury lifestyle, news, fashion and beauty follow Emirates Woman on Facebook and Instagram Images: Instagram, Photographer @
Express Tribune
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Kidman wants more women directors
Australian megastar Nicole Kidman lamented on Sunday the "incredibly low" number of hit films made by women directors, and revealed that she often wakes up at 3.00AM to do her own personal writing, reported AFP. Despite her efforts backing and mentoring women-led projects, the number of women-made films among the highest-grossing films "is incredibly low", she said as she received a Kering Women In Motion award at the Cannes film festival. Kidman pledged in 2017 to work with a woman director at least once every 18 months, saying then that there was "such a disparity in terms of the choices". "You would go, 'OK, could a woman direct this?' There just wasn't a number of names that you could consider," she said. The Oscar-winning actor confirmed that she had worked with 27 female directors since her pledge eight years ago. Only seven of the 22 films in the main competition in Cannes this year are directed by women. But Kidman heaped praise on an early critics' favourite, Mascha Schilinski's The Sound of Falling, a German-language drama about multi-generational trauma among women on a farm. "To have Sound of Falling heard on the world stage, that's fantastic," she said. Although she ruled out writing her own script, she did reveal that she frequently wakes up during the night to write. "It's a very ripe time for things to happen because you're in that slightly removed state from reality," she said. "I wake up and I'll write something, be it a dream, be it something that's circulating in my mind." Lawrence talks parenthood Meanwhile, actors Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lawrence, who star in the Cannes Film Festival competition title Die My Love, reflected on Sunday on the difficulties of the postpartum period and how they brought their own experiences of parenthood to the film, reported AFP. "There's not really anything like postpartum. It's extremely isolating," Lawrence, who recently gave birth to her second child, told journalists in the French Riviera resort town. However, "as a mother, it was really hard to separate what I would do as opposed to what she (her character) would do," said Lawrence, who won an Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook in 2013. Pattinson and Lawrence play a couple, Jackson and Grace, who move to a small Montana town and have a child, which puts increasing pressure on their relationship as Grace, a writer, struggles to deal with her new identity as a mother. "When dealing with a partner going through postpartum or any kind of mental illness or difficulties, trying to deal with her isolation, figuring out what your role is, is difficult, especially if you don't have the vernacular," Pattinson said. The film, the latest from Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, known for emotionally intense dramas like We Need To Talk About Kevin, received a nine-minute standing ovation at its premiere on Saturday night and has been well-received by critics. Pattinson, who gained fame in the Twilight series before both taking on less mainstream titles like The Lighthouse and donning Batman's suit, said becoming a parent himself last year had reinvigorated him. "In the most unexpected ways, having a baby gives you the biggest trove of energy and inspiration," said Pattinson. Lawrence, of the Hunger Games series, said that becoming a parent made her realise that she didn't know just how much she could feel - "and my job has a lot to do with emotion". "I highly recommend having kids if you want to be an actor." Anderson's A-list army In addition, US director Wes Anderson brought his latest A-list cast led by Benicio del Toro to the festival, ramping up the star power as the competition reaches the halfway mark. Anderson's typically whimsical The Phoenician Scheme, which also finds roles for Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson and Kate Winslet's daughter, Mia Threapleton, is in the running for the top prize at Cannes. It tells the story of risk-taking and accident-prone European tycoon Zsa-zsa Korda, played by del Toro, a character loosely based on Anderson's Lebanese father-in-law. "He was a completely different sort of person, but he was an engineer and quite alpha," the director told AFP. "His relationship with my wife is probably the DNA of the movie. He told her one day, 'I need to tell you about how my business works because I won't live forever.' But "the way he told her about his business was he opened a closet and started taking out shoeboxes and said, 'This is the project that we are doing in Saudi. This is the project we are doing in Gibraltar," Anderson added. "She came home and she said, 'This is crazy.' So all of that went in the movie. Sorry," said the maker of such quirky hits as Asteroid City, The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Darjeeling Limited. With Anderson's film always thick with stars, the film's red-carpet premiere was packed with stars, with Edward Norton, Julianne Moore, Benedict Cumberbatch and Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro also in town. Sunday also saw the premiere of Nigeria's first film in an official slot at Cannes. My Father's Shadow, the debut feature of newcomer Akinola Davies is set during a 1993 coup, a pivotal moment in Nigeria's recent history, when the military annulled the election and General Sani Abacha eventually took power. "Getting into competition for the first time ever shows that Nigerian cinema has come of age," Prince Baba Agba, a cultural advisor to Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu, told AFP. Culture Minister Hannatu Musawa led the large and stylish Nigerian presence on the red carpet for the premiere.
eNCA
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- eNCA
Nicole Kidman laments 'incredibly low' number of women-directed films
Australian megastar Nicole Kidman lamented Sunday the "incredibly low" number of hit films made by women directors, and revealed that she often wakes up at 3:00 am to do her own personal writing. Despite her efforts backing and mentoring women-led projects, the number of women-made films among the highest-grossing films "is incredibly low", she said as she received a Kering Women In Motion award at the Cannes film festival. Kidman pledged in 2017 to work with a woman director at least once every 18 months, saying then that there was "such a disparity in terms of the choices". "You would go, 'OK, could a woman direct this?' There just wasn't a number of names that you could consider," she said. The Oscar-winning actor confirmed that she had worked with 27 female directors since her pledge eight years ago. Only seven of the 22 films in the main competition in Cannes this year are directed by women. But Kidman heaped praise on an early critics' favourite, Mascha Schilinski's "The Sound of Falling", a German-language drama about multi-generational trauma among women on a farm. "To have 'Sound of Falling' heard on the world stage, that's fantastic," she said. Although she ruled out writing her own script, she did reveal that she frequently wakes up during the night to write. "It's a very ripe time for things to happen because you're in that slightly removed state from reality," she said.
France 24
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- France 24
Nicole Kidman laments 'incredibly low' number of women-directed films
Despite her efforts backing and mentoring women-led projects, the number of women-made films among the highest-grossing films "is incredibly low", she said as she received a Kering Women In Motion award at the Cannes film festival. Kidman pledged in 2017 to work with a woman director at least once every 18 months, saying then that there was "such a disparity in terms of the choices". "You would go, 'OK, could a woman direct this?' There just wasn't a number of names that you could consider," she said. The Oscar-winning actor confirmed that she had worked with 27 female directors since her pledge eight years ago. Only seven of the 22 films in the main competition in Cannes this year are directed by women. But Kidman heaped praise on an early critics' favourite, Mascha Schilinski's "The Sound of Falling", a German-language drama about multi-generational trauma among women on a farm. "To have 'Sound of Falling' heard on the world stage, that's fantastic," she said. Although she ruled out writing her own script, she did reveal that she frequently wakes up during the night to write. "It's a very ripe time for things to happen because you're in that slightly removed state from reality," she said. © 2025 AFP
Time of India
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
German female-led 'folk-horror' The Sound of Falling early favourite in Cannes
The Cannes film festival has an early frontrunner for its top prize in the form of a haunting German film exploring female trauma across four generations that one review called "ethereal, unnerving brilliance". "The Sound of Falling " by Mascha Schilinski follows four girls growing up on a farm in northeast Germany from the World War I era to present day, punctuated by their inner-most thoughts. "We may have already seen the best film at Cannes this year," said Vulture's reviewer Alison Willmore. The film weaves in and out of the 1910s, 1940, 1980s and present day, with a nearby river providing summer swims but also luring in the characters with a disturbing sense of doom. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Os 15 melhores cursos de inglês online para 2025! Aprendafalaringles Saiba Mais Undo The Guardian likened it to a "ghost story or even a folk-horror", while The Hollywood Reporter said it was a "movie that resembles nothing you've quite seen before". It said it felt "as if Virginia Woolf had decided to rewrite a book by Thomas Hardy" -- the former being a feminist author who walked into a river with her pockets filled with stones to take her own life. - 'Radical liberation' - The film centres on the female experience in a year when the Cannes Festival is seeking to better respond to the #MeToo movement. "We weren't so much interested in major events like war, but perhaps smaller events, little feelings, misfortunes, that sometimes can have a tremendous impact on a character," Schilinski told journalists. In the 1910s, Alma -- a little girl with coiled white-blonde braids played by 10-year-old actor Hanna Heckt -- seeks clues from her elder siblings on how to make sense of life. In one off-camera comment, she notes that the family's young maid was taken away and made infertile so farm hands could sexually abuse her unhindered. "The servants were sterilised so you could sleep with them without there being any risk for the men. This really did exist," the filmmaker said. "I thought, how can you survive on a daily basis when you have the impression that you're wasting your life?" "Many women in this film do not choose death -- but it's often the only possibility they can think of to reach radical liberation," she added. - More to come - Screen Daily, which draws from a dozen reviews for each film, on Friday showed "Sound of Falling" had received some of the best reviews so far. Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa's "Two Prosecutors", a Soviet-era warning about despots, has also been popular. Some viewers have also been excited about "Sirat", Franco-Spanish filmmaker Olivier Laxe's Morocco-set road trip starring real-life ravers and featuring a trance music soundtrack. But with competition screenings just three days in and continuing until May 22, other hot contenders are still to premiere in the coming days. They include Wes Anderson 's latest madcap comedy-drama "The Phoenician Scheme", and repeatedly detained Iranian director Jafar Panahi's mysterious "A Simple Accident". On the last day of the competition, on Friday next week, two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne will show the festival "Young Mothers", the story of five young mothers staying in a maternity home. Check out our list of the latest Hindi , English , Tamil , Telugu , Malayalam , and Kannada movies . Don't miss our picks for the best Hindi movies , best Tamil movies, and best Telugu films .
