The poster of the 70th Cannes Festival 2017

Italian actress Claudia Cardinale is honoured on the poster of the 70th edition of the film festival. greeted for his aesthetics, poster of the 70^e Cannes Festival with Claudia Cardinale on a roof in Rome in 1959.

Can a poster be a little too retouched?

But the picture of this poster has been retouched in relation to the originaAn original photo that didn't really need to be retouched on the size of our fetish actress, is that our opinion and you?

But this created a slight controversy at its launch on Wednesday: media, feminists and Internet users denounced digital changes to reduce the actress.

Lower the official reactions on this issue! and the elegant response of the actress.

As a reminder, since 1 January, a law requires in France the mention «Retouched photograph» for commercial shots of mannequins whose body appearance has been modified by image processing software to refine or thicken the silhouette.

Reactions on the poster of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival

Several times by the AFP in the afternoon, the Cannes Film Festival made no comment, as did the agent of Claudia Cardinale and the creation agency Bronx who imagined the poster from an original photo. At the time, the actress was 21 years old.

She. Magazine: « The modifications made on his silhouette make us particularly uncomfortable. […] His face was lift, his waist was refined, his thigh and left leg, as well as his arms stretched and refined », denounced in particular the French magazine She.
Telerama :« If the poster is beautiful, you can see — and deplore — that the photo has been largely retouched... Too bad... », estimated the cultural magazine Telerama on its website.

Release « Between the original and the copy, Claudia Cardinale lost a waistline »stressed the daily Release in a Twitter message, accompanied by a video animation superimposing the original photo and the final result observed on the Festival poster.

Contacted by The WorldThe communication agency responsible for the production of the poster refers to the press service of the Cannes Film Festival, which has not yet been implemented.

Joint by AFP, Thierry Frémaux, the general delegate of the Cannes Festival, said that he was « not aware of the controversy ».

Claudia Cardinale, now 78 years old, commented, before the beginning of the controversy:
« In addition to being honored and proud to have been chosen to wear the colors of the 70^e edition of Cannes I am very happy to choose this photo. »

« This dance on a roof of Rome was in 1959. No one remembers the name of the photographer, I forgot him too. But this photo reminds me of my beginnings, and a time when I would never have imagined one day going up the steps of the most famous cinema palace. Happy birthday! », added the actress.