BONHAM CARTER DEPRESSED BY CANNES WAR FILMS + FASHION

Last updated: Monday, August 7, 2006

BONHAM CARTER DEPRESSED BY CANNES WAR FILMS + FASHION

British actress HELENA BONHAM CARTER has mixed emotions about her official duties at this year's (MAY06) Cannes Film Festival in France - because she had to sit through hours of ''gruelling'' cinema dressed in the latest fashions.

HELENA BONHAM CARTER

The HOWARDS END star was initially thrilled to be a member of the festival's jury, but the role most actors and actresses would kill for quickly took its toll on her.

She says, "To watch 20 films back to back, there is no time to process them before another onslaught of information.

"What was so sad, I found, they (films) were uniformly negative and depressing... We went from the Second World War to the Algerian War to the Gulf War to the Irish Civil War.

"And then we would go to extreme poverty in Portugal to extreme poverty in Glasgow, to extreme poverty in China.

"Plus, if you are a girl in this business and you are in Cannes, you have to get the clothes and dress up and organise the jewels. The whole fashion industry has completely hijacked cinema.

"There's too much pressure and you are judged by what you wear."

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