Diamonds, heists and lots of kissing prove backstage drama at Cannes was unchanged by the pandemic From a lack of Brits on the red carpet to constant Covid tests, how Cannes 2021 played out unlike any other Emma Thynn, Marchioness of Bath, in Pomellato and Celia Kirthotori at the Cannes Film Festival After a year on hiatus — for obvious reasons — last week, the Cannes Festival kicked off with the pop and fizz of a champagne bottle. What would socially distanced, PCR-tested glamour look like in 2021? Exactly the same as it usually does, it turns out. Sure, some might fist-bump on the red carpet, but most still go in for the real double-kiss — including Pierre Lescure, president of the festival, who broke his own ‘bisou ban’. There have been dramas, as there always are — Jodie Turner-Smith had tens of thousands worth of jewels robbed from her hotel room, while Lea Seydoux tested positive before departing Paris and had to miss the premiere of Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch.