This year´s Cannes Film Festival

The last time I wrote about reviews and the way we feel moved by the experience of watching a film, which is one of the most personal experiences of our life. On that post I focused on the film The Great Gatsby to illustrate that idea and I would like to point out that it was this film that became the centre of the opening gala of this year´s Cannes Film Festival. As times goes by, it may be difficult to remember which films were released “at the end of the red carpet”, however, there is an ingredient which is always inherent in any film festival: the poster of the film festival and, on this occasion, the poster of the 66^th Cannes Festival has been paid a lot of compliments thanks to the indelible image of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward as eternal kissers.

The Cannes Film Festival is famous for its official posters as every year the Festival decides on posters that rely on iconic images related to the world of cinema. According to the official sources, the reason for choosing Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward was that they were “a couple who embody the spirit of cinema like no other”. The choice of this poster is a way of paying tribute to the memory of both actors who were in Cannes in 1958 – the year they got married – for the official competition of The Long Hot Summer, the first film in which they appeared together.

Is there any image or images which you always associate with films? What kind of image comes to your mind when you think about cinema?