Jane Fonda said goodbye to Ted Turner — the man she called her favorite ex-husband — writing that he swept into her life like a gloriously handsome swashbuckling pirate and she was never the same after him.

Six days after his death she walked the Cannes red carpet in a black Gucci gown as her first public appearance since losing him — and stood on that stage and said something about cinema and storytelling that every person in that room needed to hear at exactly that moment. At 88 Jane Fonda just reminded the whole world that grief and grace are not opposites — sometimes they walk the red carpet together.