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 yr’s Cannes Movie Competition, which revealed them Monday forward of the fest’s 78th version.
For the primary time in Cannes’ historical past, the film, which gained the Palme d’Or that yr, 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 gained the Greatest Overseas Movie and Screenplay Oscars, whereas Aimee (Greatest Actress) and Lelouch (Greatest Director) have 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 digital camera,” the competition wrote right this moment in a launch revealing the pictures. “The Palme d’or in Cannes in 1966, the 2 Oscars in Hollywood in 1967 and the handfuls of awards all over the world pale compared to this grandiose second of tenderness, simplicity and wonder.”
The competition added right this moment: “Throughout instances that appear to need to separate, compartmentalize or subjugate, the Competition de Cannes desires to (re)unite; to convey our bodies, hearts and souls nearer collectively; to encourage freedom and painting motion as a way to perpetuate it; to embody the whirlwind of life to have a good time it, many times.
“This man and this lady who each gained 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 gentle now not comes from the heavens, right this moment 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 ultimately yr’s Venice Movie Competition the place he obtained the fest’s Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award.
This yr’s Cannes Movie Competition runs Could 13-24.
