Every year for the past 69 years, the Cannes Festival's red carpet has seen the biggest female legends of French and international cinema. By their talent, their beauty or their outfits, these stars have left indelible traces in the history of cinema and the Cannes Film Festival. The opening of this 69th Cannes Film Festival is an opportunity to return to these immortalized moments synonymous with glamor and glory.

Cinematographic icons

On May 11, 1955, the Cannes Film Festival welcomed Grace Kelly shortly before her meeting with Prince Rainier and a few months before the beginning of their love affair. That same year, Sophia Loren made a remarkable appearance on the red carpet, all dressed in white.

In 1957 the French actress Brigitte Bardot indulges in an autograph session for her admirers, a year after the film that propelled her to the cinema "And God ... created the woman". Thanks to him, she becomes a myth and the sex symbol of the 60s , a symbol of femininity, sexual freedom and the emancipation of women. 1957 still, Elizabeth Taylor appears on the Croisette with Mike Todd. If this is the only unresolved divorce for the eight-husband actress, it will end painfully, since Mike Todd died of a plane crash a few months later ...

Another legendary figure: Romy Schneider. In 1969, a year after shooting "La Piscine" alongside her ex-fiance Alain Delon, she appeared radiant at the Carlton exit at the Cannes Film Festival. That same year, the iconic Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg took part in a photo shoot on the port of Cannes.

Ten years later, actress Catherine Deneuve presents the Palme d'Or jointly to German filmmakers Volker Schlöndorff for his film "Le Tambour" and American director Francis Ford Coppola for his film "Apocalypse Now".

In 1995, Vanessa Paradis sang "The Whirlwind of Life" (a song Jeanne Moreau sang in Jules and Jim) to pay tribute to the Jury President, actress Jeanne Moreau. The singer then poses with Jeanne Moreau and Carole Bouquet in front of the photographers.

Sex symbols

Cinematographic icons, yes, but let's face it, sex-symbols too! In 2011, the muse of Pedro Almodovar, Penelope Cruz scrolls on the red carpet wearing a long semi-transparent dress. In 2013, French actress Marion Cotillard illuminates the red carpet wearing a long Dior dress and wearing a XXL bun bun at Grace Kelly. French actress always, a year later, Léa Seydoux crowd in turn the red carpet, dressed in a sumptuous Prada dress, for the film Yves Saint Laurent with Gaspard Ulliel.

Great absent from the 68 previous ceremonies of the Cannes Film Festival, Julia Roberts will parade for the first time this year along the legendary red carpet!