The Cannes Film Festival faces fresh accusations of discrimination for turning away women from the red carpet for not wearing high heels after a film producer with an amputated foot said she was told off for wearing flat shoes.
Film producer Valeria Richter, who has part of her left foot amputated, said she was stopped by festival officials who pointed and waved their fingers at her flat shoes.
Richter said she could not “keep her balance” in heels after having her big toe and part of her left foot amputated and was stopped four times on her way into the premiere of Gus Van Sant’s Sea of Trees on Saturday.
She told BBC 5 Live that red carpet officials pointed at her shoes and said: “No, no, this won’t work, you can’t get in like this.”
She said: “They pointed their finger at my shoe and then were waving their fingers at me. It was quite obvious it was my shoes that was an issue.
I...just...uh..., no. Okay, I guess I
may get
why, the issue of height aside, some women may
choose to torture themselves with high heels, but, this is still a horrendous distortion of how the human body is meant to work. This is still, certainly if involuntary, a form of torture. And to what end ? Who the hell benefits from women being forced to pose precariously in stilettos ? And what the hell does this say about our society ? Just...why ?
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