{"id":439595,"date":"2026-05-13T12:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/439595\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:47:09","slug":"the-real-stars-of-cannes-by-johanna-berghorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/439595\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Stars of Cannes by Johanna Berghorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I asked Fran\u00e7ois, the man selling soft serve from one of those little pointed huts along the Croisette, who I walked past every morning and ended up having a daily little chat with,  which became, somehow, my favourite part of the trip. Fran\u00e7ois has probably handed a  coffee or an ice cream to half the people who&#8217;ve ever come to Cannes. He&#8217;s also, by some  distance, the festival&#8217;s most devoted fan: day one he sent me away with a stack of brochures  about the area, day two with an official merch cap. He felt like part of the whole thing. And he  was.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Adult Person Chair Furniture Romantic Boat Transportation Vehicle Outdoors Dating and Nature\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/22_PAUL_GE%CC%80RARD_.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I asked the fl\u00e2neurs, of which there are many in Cannes during the festival, drifting up and  down the Croisette with the kind of slow, deliberate walk of someone who very much hopes<br \/>to be looked at, and who, you suspect, planned the outfit for exactly that. And I asked the  ones who weren&#8217;t walking at all, who had claimed their spots along the Croisette, watching  the spectacle unfold and quietly enjoying being part of it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Axel Prahl Cream Dessert Food Ice Cream Adult Person Cap Clothing Hat TShirt and Baseball Cap\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/02_FRANCOISE_.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I asked Fran\u00e7ois, the man selling soft serve from one of those little pointed huts along the Croisette,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,206100,64725,64726,20799,5101],"class_list":["post-439595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-photostories","tag-photovogue","tag-storytypeannouncements","tag-textbelowleftfullbleed","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}