More than 20 years after seducing Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct, Sharon Stone returns to dazzle Cannes and watch him seduce Matt Damon in Behind the Candelabra. The French have a strong taste for Hollywood nostalgia and went crazy at her unexpected appearance – last year’s visit by Bruce Willis elicited a similarly rapturous response.
Wearing the colours of the Côte d’Azur (and winning Forbes’s ‘Best Dressed At Cannes’ award, Stone was among the last to mount the red carpet – alone – and upstaged the entire cast and crew of the gala movie.
