Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the poster for its 76th edition (May 16-27) which honours French actor Catherine Deneuve.
The black and white poster depicts Deneuve on the set of Alain Cavalier’s 1968 romance Heartbeat which shot on Pampelonne beach, near France’s Saint-Tropez.
In the film, Deneuve plays a 25-year-old woman caught between the luxury of being a mistress and the love of a man her own age. The festival likened the character’s heart, which beats “frantically, hurriedly, passionately”, to that of the heart of cinema – “its lively and embodied pulse can be heard everywhere.
“The heart of the 7th Art - of its artists, professionals, amateurs, press - beats like a drum, to the rhythm of the urgency that its eternal nature imposes.”
Deneuve’s history with Cannes is longstanding, having starred in Jacques Demy’s Palme d’Or winning The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg in 1964. In 1994, she was the vice president of the competition jury, led by Clint Eastwood, which awarded Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction the top prize. Six years later in 2000, she starred in a Palme d’Or winner once again with Lars von Trier’s Dancer In The Dark.
The actor has also been awarded several honorary prizes at the festival – the honourary Palme d’Or in 2005 and the Prix Lumière in 2016.
“It is [Deneuve’s] unspeakable magic that the 76th International Film Festival conveys with this timeless poster. To reiterate the glorious present of cinema and to envisage its future full of promise. Catherine Deneuve stands for what cinema should never stop being: elusive, daring, irreverent. Something self-evident: a necessity.”
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