18 Greatest Cannes Moments

Golden palms, glamorous girls, and Tarantino's middle finger...

This year's Cannes film festival, the annual orgy of buying and selling, bikinis, yachts, and the occasional film screening, begins on Wednesday.

To celebrate the return of cinema's gliztiest Euro carnival, we've manfully trawled through hundreds of pictures of film stars in their swimsuits to put together a countdown of those special moments that could only happen in Cannes...

18. Troma Take Over The Croisette (2006)
What happened? Trash film production outfit (and makers of the Toxic Avenger) Troma films stage a weird rally at Cannes every year.

Why it’s great: The parade of freaks in dreadful monster get-up, amateurish make-up and wrestler’s spandex bring a desperate, frenzied edge to the festival. Without slightly demented nobodies, how would the somebodies know they were anybody?


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