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The Cannes Film festival officially ends today after two weeks of premieres, parties and glamor on the French Riviera. The top prize at the festival, the Palm D’Or, will be announced at 7:30 pm Central European Time, which is 6 hours ahead of EST. Frontrunners are generally thought to be Steven Soderbergh’s Che and maybe Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, although past winners were often complete surprises and it could go to any of the deserving films in competition.
On Friday night, Michelle Williams made her second red carpet appearance and looked a little more somber than on Thursday, when everyone was heralding her return to the red carpet after the death of her daughter’s father, Heath Ledger, in January.
In an article about the seedy side of Cannes, author Liz Jones mentioned that the photographers at the premiere of Williams’ film were shouting questions at her about Heath. Her description is sad:
I see Michelle Williams braving the red carpet to promote her new film as shouts from the paparazzi, begging her to give just one soundbite about the death of her former fiancee; Heath Ledger, rain down on her narrow shoulders like hail.
[From The Daily Mail]
Williams was at the premiere of Synedoche, New York, with a screenplay written by Charlie Kaufman, who also wrote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Adaptation. She appears in the film along with Samantha Morton, Catherine Keneer, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. When I saw these photos I got confused, because I thought the photocall pictures we published earlier were from Williams’ film Wendy and Lucy, but it turns out they were for Synedoche, and that Williams is in two movies at Cannes this year. According to IMDB, Synedoche, New York is about “a theater director [played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, who] struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.”
Also shown are photos from the premiere of The Palermo Shooting Saturday, where the stars of the film along with plenty of lesser-knowns showed up. Shown are Milla Jovovich, Campino, Dennis Hopper, Kerry Washington (who was also at the Synechdoche premiere), Phoebe Price (who I know primarily from D-Listed), Dennis Hopper’s super skinny wife Victoria, some chick named Jana Pallaske in a ridiculous pink feather dress, Sarah Marshall, and Zhang Zilin.
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11 Responses to “Cannes premiere photos: Michelle Williams, Milla Jovovich & More”
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i can´t believe those paps. must have been hard for michelle
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The most random people/celebrities have been gathered in Cannes.
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whoever that woman is in the white suit - her breasts should not be hanging out that way with stretch marks showing… =/ bleh.
other than her, everyone looked gorgeous. -
I *used to HATE MW when she was on Dawson’s Creek. Now I just love her, she’s one of my faves. I luuuurrrve that purple dress.
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The woman’s got class.
The paps don’t know the meaning of the word.
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Paps who act like that ought to be treated like hooligans and banned from the red carpets.
They live off celebrities, the least they could do is show an ounce of decency.
At least when grief, death or illness is involved.I guess being famous means having your picture taken when you’re looking less than perfect and having your love life made fun of… but this should not be a part of stardom!
Noone deserves to be treated like that. -
Michelle Williams really is a beautiful woman- on the inside and out.
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That red and white strapless dress would look better without that strange black bow and contrast stitching on it. And that houndstooth outfit is just too ugly, especially with the bell sleeves. Makes me wonder what were they were thinking. LOL
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Zhang Zilin is stunning, fabulous and gorgeous, she has an international appeal, is she Miss world 2007?
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gorgeousness abounds. Milla looks grand !
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