Cannes 2025: DiCaprio pays moving tribute to De Niro, Binoche passes verdict on Depardieu, and I avoid red-carpet nudity

Cannes 2025: DiCaprio pays moving tribute to De Niro, Binoche passes verdict on Depardieu, and I avoid red-carpet nudity

Cannes Diary: French film festival’s opening day contends with news from Gérard Depardieu’s sexual-assault trial

Epilogue of a media trial. On Tuesday 13 May, the Paris court sentenced Gérard Depardieu to 18 months of suspended imprisonment for acts of sexual assault on two women. The facts that took place on the filming of Jean Becker's Les Volets Verts in 2021. "I am very satisfied with the decision, it is a victory, a great step forward for me," said Amélie, one of the complainants at the micro de Franceinfo. "I am very moved, we are moving," she added.…

The Cannes Film Festival has just begun. And on it will weigh the sentence in absentia to Gérard Depardieu, a giant of French cinema. The famous review began a few hours after the sentence of the trial in Paris against Gérard Depardieu, accused of sexual violence. The actor was sentenced to 18 months in prison with parole for harassing two women, a costume designer and an assistant, who worked on the set of the movie Les Volets Verts of 2021. Ca…