Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain Celebrate Return of Cannes and U.K. Star Power

Nothing says ‘Cannes is back’ like the glitzy annual Chopard Trophee Dinner, where Jessica Chastain and Maggie Gyllenhaal on Friday saluted the return of the festival while celebrating this year’s award recipients, U.K.

actors Kingsley Ben-Adir and Jessie Buckley.Chastain — who doesn’t have a movie in Cannes but came along for the ride — played Master of Ceremonies for the presentation, joking that she was the unofficial “godmother” of the Chopard Trophee, which is given to both a male and female recipient every year.

The dinner took place at the Majestic hotel in Cannes, where attendees included festival jury members Spike Lee, Mélanie Laurent, Tahar Rahim and Song Kang-Ho, along with the likes of Andrea Arnold, Bella Hadid and Adrien Brody.“It was 10 years ago that I came here with ‘Take Shelter’ and ‘The Tree of Life’ and I had no idea how much my life would change

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