It is one of the special aspects of the Cannes Film Festival that it serves as much as a parade of extremely expensive clothing as it does as a showcase for devastating films that often focus on poverty, inequality and social crises.
What should one wear to the premiere of a film about a family struggling to make ends meet ("Leila's Brothers"), or desperate African refugees forced into crime ("Tori and Lokita") or a biting satire about the excesses of the super-rich ("Triangle of Sadness")?
