Lifestyle | Fashion France’s most fabulous film festival roared back — and the familiar faces certainly flooded in. Highlights of this year’s Cannes Film Festival schedule counted George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness, which sees Emma Stone return in front of his lens. There was also Francis Ford Coppola’s science fiction drama Megalopolis, which stars Adam Driver, as well as Kevin Costner's Western epic Horizon, An American Saga, which features Costner alongside Sienna Miller.

The festival runs May 14 — 25 (and here are the 11 films you can’t miss ). The first guests to arrive were, as ever, this year’s jury; helmed by Barbie director Greta Gerwig , it consists of Killers of the Moon actor Lily Gladstone , Turkish screenwriter Ebru Ceylan, Spanish producer and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona, Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino, French actor Eva Green, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, Lebanese director Nadine Labaki and French actor and producer Omar Sy. Style highlights from the opening day included Gladstone, who wore a Gucci white shirt dress with “Ancora” red accessories; platform loafers, bag and GG-logo belt, all signatures from new creative director Sabato De Sarno.

Gerwig also commanded attention in a Margiela couture look from John Galliano’s much-feted Spring 2024 collection , as the pair took part in the opening press conference. Meryl Streep later bathed in the spotlight as she fully embraced .