The Cannes Festivalhas chosen for the poster of its66th editionA couple who perfectly embodies the spirit of cinema:Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, taken in pictures on the shooting of the property A New Kind of Love, by Melville Shavelson (1963). It is an opportunity for the Festival to pay tribute to the memory of Paul Newman, who disappeared in 2008, and to make a full admiration to Joanne Woodward, his wife and his election performer.
The Cannes Film Festival hosted them in 1958 – the year of their wedding – by selecting Martin Ritt's The Long Hot Summer, the first film they toured together. Their history continues to be associated with the Festival with the films directed by Paul Newman, who entrusts unforgettable roles to Joanne Woodward in The Effect of the Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Competition -1973) and La Ménagerie de verre (The Glass Menagerie) (Competition – 1987).
Festival poster 2013 The filming photo was isolated and then reworked and staged by the Bronx agency, which integrated it into a kinetic decor, playing on the impression of movement and depth to strengthen the cinematic effect. The poster gives a bright and tender image of the modern couple, encircled in a perfect balance figure in what evokes the whirlwind of love. The vision of these two lovers caught in vertigo and losing all landmarks calls to live cinema as an endless desire.
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