The Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday announced its closing film, Pixar’s animated film Elementary, and unveiled its official poster for the next edition, which stars 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 La Chamade d’Alain Cavalier,” the organizers said in a statement.
Côte d’Azur, 1968. The iconic Catherine Deneuve embodies what cinema should remember to be: elusive, audacious, irreverent. Here is the poster for the 76th Cannes Film Festival. From May 16 to 27, let’s celebrate the love of cinema.
“For more than 60 years, the biggest French star has never stopped filming, reinventing himself, experimenting, daring counter-jobs 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 has a very long history with Cannes, where she notably served as 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, Elementary, will be screened in world premiere on May 27, out of competition, before its theatrical release on June 16 in the United States and June 21 in France.
It recounts the friendship between “Flam, an intrepid and quick-witted 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 take the stairs. Pixar had already screened three of its films at Cannes, Up, Inside Out, and 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.