‘Grotesque’ red carpet selfies banned at Cannes festival

PARIS — Want to take a selfie on the red carpet during the Cannes Film Festival? Well, you can’t.

That’s the message from top festival official Thierry Fremaux, who says red carpet-selfies will be banned at this year’s star-studded event.

Violators, he said on Europe-1 radio Wednesday, won’t be let in to see films.

When festival-goers take selfies as they climb the carpeted stairs to the French Riviera venue, he said everything becomes “disorganized” and the program “runs late.”