High heels or the highway

Cannes Film Festival organisers have denied a report that they were enforcing a strict high-heel rule for women on the event’s legendary red carpet after a storm of protest on social media.

In what was meant to be a good year for women at cinema’s top showcase, British trade magazine Screen Daily said that “a handful of women in their 50s were turned away” by Cannes ushers from a night gala screening.