Claude Lelouch‘s 1966 romantic drama A Man and a Girl starring Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant is the inspiration behind the official posters for this 12 months’s Cannes Movie Pageant, which revealed them Monday forward of the fest’s 78th version.
For the primary time in Cannes’ historical past, the film, which received the Palme d’Or that 12 months, has spurred two official posters, each exhibiting the movie’s iconic embrace scene between Aimée’s Anne and Trintignant’s Jean-Louis on a abandoned seaside: one with Aimee’s face proven and one with Trintignant’s.
The movie centered on Anne and Jean-Louis, a widow and a widower who discover one another however who should tread fastidiously as they’re haunted by their tragic previous loves. After its Palme d’Or triumph, the pic received the Greatest Overseas Movie and Screenplay Oscars, whereas Aimee (Greatest Actress) and Lelouch (Greatest Director) had been nominated.
“It was 60 years in the past. In 1965, two broken beings performed by Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant met, charmed one another, resisted, and at last twirled below Claude Lelouch’s incandescent digicam,” the competition wrote right now in a launch revealing the photographs. “The Palme d’or in Cannes in 1966, the 2 Oscars in Hollywood in 1967 and the handfuls of awards around the globe pale compared to this grandiose second of tenderness, simplicity and wonder.”
The competition added right now: “Throughout instances that appear to need to separate, compartmentalize or subjugate, the Pageant de Cannes needs to (re)unite; to convey our bodies, hearts and souls nearer collectively; to encourage freedom and painting motion with the intention to perpetuate it; to embody the whirlwind of life to have fun it, many times.
“This man and this lady who each received awards in Cannes — Greatest Actor, Greatest Actress — aren’t any extra. These two posters additionally pay homage. Magnificent heroes of delicacy and seduction, Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant eternally illuminate the movie of our lives, like these two posters, whose colours categorical the depth of a passionate love that triumphs over despair. This mild not comes from the heavens, right now troubled on all sides by darkish clouds; it emerges from the radiant fusion of two beings who reconcile us with life.”
Lelouch’s newest work, Finalement, debuted finally 12 months’s Venice Movie Pageant the place he obtained the fest’s Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award.
This 12 months’s Cannes Movie Pageant runs Could 13-24.
