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Cannes 2024 - opening night

by Richard Mowe

The 2024 Cannes Film Festival got under way tonight as three-time Oscar-winner Meryl Streep received an Honorary Palme d'Or at a ceremony presided over by Camille Cottin. The opening night film was Quentin Dupieux's The Second Act, with his stars Raphaël Quenard, Louis Garrel, Léa Seydoux and Vincent Lindon all on the red carpet.

  • Meryl Streep in Cannes — photo by Richard Mowe

    What’s not to smile about? Meryl Streep feels the love from the Cannes crowds who braved the rain clouds at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival

  • Meryl Streep in Cannes 2 — photo by Richard Mowe

    Meryl Streep arrives to ecstatic applause from the crowd at the Cannes Film Festival’s opening ceremony

  • Meryl Streep with her Honorary Palme d'Or — photo by Richard Mowe

    Meryl Streep with her Honorary Palme d'Or

  • Camille Cottin at Cannes opening ceremony — photo by Richard Mowe

    Camille Cottin from Call My Agent presided over the Festival’s opening ceremony

  • Cannes opening night red carpet 2024 — photo by Richard Mowe

    Red carpet arrivals,from left, Raphaël Quenard, Louis Garrel, Léa Seydoux and Vincent Lindon, the main cast from The Second Act

  • Juliette Binoche and Meryl Streep in Cannes — photo by Richard Mowe

    An emotional Juliette Binoche with an equally emotional Meryl Streep as the US star was given an honorary Palme d”Or during the opening night ceremony at the Cannes Film Festival

  • Cannes 2024 opening night 1 — photo by Richard Mowe

    Faces in the crowd: Léa Seydoux and Quentin Dupieux await the screening of the Cannes Film Festival’s opening film The Second Act

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