Cannes Film Festival: Catherine Deneuve honored on the official poster

2023-04-19 21:11:00

The Cannes Film Festival unveiled its official poster on Wednesday as well as its closing film, Pixar’s “Elementary” animated film.

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The Cannes Film Festival unveiled its official poster on Wednesday as well as its closing film, Pixar’s “Elementary” animated film.
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Published on 04/19/2023 at 9:11 p.m

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Lhe Cannes Film Festival announced its closing film on Wednesday, the animated film Elementary by Pixar, and unveiled its official poster for the next edition, which honors Catherine Deneuve.

In black and white, the official poster for this 76th edition (from May 16 to 27) is based on a filming photo by Catherine Deneuve “on the beach at Pampelonne, near Saint-Tropez, for the filming of The chamade of Alain Cavalier”, specified the organizers in a press release.

French Riviera, 1968.
The iconic Catherine Deneuve embodies what cinema should remember to be: elusive, daring, irreverent. Here is the poster for the 76th Cannes Film Festival. From May 16 to 27, let’s celebrate the love of cinema. #Cannes2023
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— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) April 19, 2023

“For more than 60 years, the biggest French star has never stopped filming, reinventing himself, experimenting, daring counter-employments or first films. (…) Deneuve embodies in his own way the richness of the cinema that the Festival wants to defend: auteur films but also quality popular films”, underlines the festival.

Deneuve, Palme d’honneur in 2005

Deneuve has a very long history with Cannes, where she was vice-president of the jury with Clint Eastwood in 1994 and where she received a Palme d’honneur in 2005, three years before a special prize for her entire career. .

It was also specified on Wednesday that the closing film, Elementarywill have its world premiere on May 27, out of competition, before its theatrical release on June 16 in the United States and June 21 in France.

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It recounts the friendship between “Flam, an intrepid and lively young woman with a strong character, and Flack, a sentimental and amusing boy, rather a follower at heart”, in a city where the four elements coexist.

Director Peter Sohn (“Le Voyage d’Arlo”) will climb the steps. Pixar had already presented three of its films at Cannes, up there, Vice versa et Soul.

The 76th festival has yet to announce the composition of its jury, chaired by Swede Ruben Östlund, who won his second Palme d’Or last year with his film Without filter.