Venice Movie Competition Has All the time Been Cannes’s Cooler, Older Sister

There’s no denying the Cannes circus is entertaining. Take the headline-making second Madonna first handled the pink carpet to Jean Paul Gaultier’s cone bra in 1991, or the time Milla Jovovich was reportedly sewn again into her beaded loincloth whereas on The Fifth Component 1997 pink carpet. Each occasion a girl (see: Julia Roberts, Kristen Stewart, and Jennifer Lawrence) goes barefoot or *gasp!* wears flip-flops, the press goes fully mad, regardless of the very fact we’ve seen it earlier than.

Not so for Venice, which quietly water taxis its company into city with little fuss and solely the faintest whiff of nautical apparel so as to add to the windswept temper. By the point the Italian installment comes round on the finish of the summer season, there appears to be a visual sigh of aid and a soothing of the shoulders. There are freckles dotted on actors’ pores and skin (though not when you’re Anne Hathaway!), tales of holidays to inform, and more room for the Hollywoodites to, fairly actually, take up. There isn’t a menace of a Kardashian-Jenner derailing the hot-ticket premiere of the week, as a result of LA correct is both nonetheless circling the Med ( you, Leonardo DiCaprio) or IV-ed as much as vitamin drips in Calabasas whereas resetting their rosé-dinted chakras and speaking about their huge enterprise plans for September.

Timothée Chalamet, for instance, has been identified to spritz his means by a day in Venice carrying leather-based pants, earlier than turning into a pink halter-neck Haider Ackermann look on the Bones and All pink carpet. That very same competition in 2022, Florence Pugh, sorry Miss Flo, additionally loved a day of Aperol whereas her Don’t Fear Darling co-stars fumbled their means by a clumsy press convention about her absence and the dismissal of Shia LaBeouf from the movie set. Pugh’s vogue retort by way of resplendent customized Valentino couture was one for the books.