These are photos of Nicole Kidman arriving in the South of France yesterday. Her new film, The Paperboy, debuts at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, and I’m expecting more photos of Nicole throughout the next few days. The Paperboy also stars Zac Efron, which… I mean… really? Nicole the Botox-Monster and Zac Efron, Permanent Jailbait (yes, I know he’s of age but his face always says “jailbait” to me). The film is being described in some quarters as an “explosive sexual thriller”. I tried reading the (spoiler-ridden) Wiki synopsis of the book, but I got kind of confused as to who does what. Oh, and the film also stars Matthew McConaughey and John Cusack. Maybe Nicole gets it on with one of them (hopefully?).

But for now, let’s talk about Nicole’s new look. And by that I mean BANGS. I’ve been confused before with some ladies’ bangs – I have a hard time figuring out if some women are wearing clip-on bangs or if they actually chopped their hair into some kind of traumatic situation. I don’t know what Nicole is doing, but I suspect this is her real hair and she really did give herself bangs. Now, Nicole has done bangs to varying degrees of success in the past – the best of which (in my opinion) was back when she was styling herself like Brigitte Bardot, and the bangs added to her kittenishness.

This current look, however, is kind of… not all that. I realize that she probably just got off the plane, etc. But how are these limp, flat-ironed-looking bangs somehow preferable to a simple bun or ponytail? And I don’t even want to talk about her lips anymore. Those slugs are so depressing. I swear, they are as bad as Lindsay Lohan’s.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.