Cannes’ poster 2023: wind and mystery

Official poster of Cannes International Film Festival is always piece of art. And intrigue. And powerful cinenigma of cinema art. And a piece of audience life. And a piece of cinema art history.

Catherine Deneuve on Pampelonne beach, near Saint-Tropez. The shooting of La Chamade by Alain Cavalier. «She plays Lucile, who leads a worldly and superficial life, tinged with ease and a taste for luxury. Her heart beats frantically, hurriedly, passionately. Like the heart of cinema that the Festival de Cannes celebrates every year…», we quote the press release of the festival: «She is the muse of Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, Marco Ferreri, Manoel de Oliveira, André Téchiné, Emmanuelle Bercot or Arnaud Desplechin… It is a certain form of magic that Catherine Deneuve embodies – pure, incandescent and sometimes transgressive…».

That's it – she represents magic light. Pure génie du cinéma. Good day, Mr. Louis Delluc… And this mysterious Japanese rain of letters…

Official poster - 76th edition © Photo Jack Garofalo/Paris Match/Scoop – Création graphique © Hartland Villa