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Sixty meters of red carpet in which the most exclusive designs of fashion and jewelry are reconcentrated. Since 1946, the Cannes Film Festival has not only been a showcase of some of the best films of the year, but also the most important catwalk on the planet. Glamour in its purest form. On the promenade of La Croisette of the 76th edition of the contest have posed, among others, Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren, Catherine Zeta Jones, Harrison Ford, Naomi Campbell, Michael Douglas and, of course, Catherine Deneuve (79), who this year is the image of the festival with a black and white image of the film Love is a strange game (1968).

La Deneuve is the last great French diva. In it, poise, distinction, talent and certain doses of coldness coexist, traits lent to the national symbol of the Marianne. The protagonist of Belle de jour (1967) gave a lesson in style on opening day by climbing the 24 steps leading to the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes. A few days later, the protagonist was his granddaughter, Anna Biolay (20), whose mother is the actress Chiara Mastroianni (50) and her father, the singer-songwriter and producer Benjamin Biolay (50), with whom he presented the film Rosalie. It is the first time that the young woman steps on this part of the cinematographic Olympus.

While the Deneuve was applauded, the Biolay was crushed from the impunity of anonymity granted by social networks. Nepotism appeared in the form of an elongated shadow with the intention of disqualifying the young performer both for her physique and for being 'daughter and granddaughter of'. In that ode to create terminologies that shrink, Anna Biolay has been put in the sack of nepo babies.

Catherine Deneuve with Marcello Mastroianni filming 'You can't trust the stork' (1973)Getty

They have been dispatched at ease. "In addition to being the daughter of, having no talent and not having to work (obviously!), she reads like a dog, she even looks severely disabled. She is fat, ugly and has no place in the French film scene," posted an Internet user with misogynistic overtones. Some words that have been nailed like daggers not only in the interpreter, who begins a career, but in that of her loved ones. Do not forget that, to make matters worse, his maternal grandfather was the Italian myth Marcello Mastroianni and by paternal line are the musicians Jacques and Chantal Biolay.

Evil and hatred

At the moment, who has raised his voice the most has been his paternal aunt, Coralie, who through the networks has expressed his discomfort because "she has not stolen any place from anyone." And he dissects his thought: "I see how this ultrasensitive young woman suffers when reading such outbursts of evil and hatred when all she has done is take part thanks to her work, her tenacity and her undeniable talent of casting a good film." Although it is evident that Anna has more contacts than any other anonymous person, her aunt claims that she passed 50 castings, read, worked and analyzed countless films. Obviously he doesn't leave the street, but he doesn't have to suffer so much shame at only 20 years old." His father said, "There will be sequels."

A few days before climbing the famous staircase, Anna told Madame Figaro that "you would have to be on the surface not to realize how lucky I am to belong to this family that has left me so many treasures. First, culture. But also the passion for art, music and cinema." Among the film stars who support her are Marion Cotillard and Leïla Bekhti.

It is striking that the hashtag has #nepobaby had more than 586 million views on Tik Tok at the time of writing, which has generated excessive interest from Generation Z.

20-year-old French actress Anna BiolayGTRES

The author Anne-Marie Bidaud, who a few years ago published the book Hollywood and the American Dream. Cinema and ideology in the United States, he has declared in Le Monde that this new generation is "much more sensitive to the problems of inequality, social injustice and racial injustice. There is a whole field of values shared by this group that leads them to criticize the old mechanisms previously tolerated." Cut by the same pattern as Anna because they are making their way are Lily-Rose Depp (her parents are Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp), Maya Hawke (Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke) or Mason Gooding (Cuba Gooding Jr.).

If the reviews had been as harsh since cinema is history, there would have been no Jamie Lee Curtis (Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis), Michael Douglas (Kirk Douglas), Mia Farrow (Maureen O'Sullivan and John Farrow) or Geraldine Chaplin (Charlot and Oona O'Neill).

Anna is a simple girl in love with Truffaut's cinema, she grew up among records and old books, she has a punk band, she loves to read Stefan Zweig, in her apartment they do not stop playing the themes of The Beatles or Amy Winehouse, among her favorite hobbies are photography and shopping, of all the junk food she loves donuts and her favorite color is pink, Although at the moment I only see black.

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