As the Cannes Film Festival approaches, July 6-17, the final details of the event are being trickled down.
After the mistress of ceremonies and while waiting for the jury, it is the poster that is revealed, and originality, it stages and in the spotlight the president of the jury, Spike Lee, his head in the palm trees.
"Because the impatience is immense to finally find the Cannes decor: the seaside, the palm trees and the black screen which will host the films of the Official Selection on a blank page", comments the festival in a press release.
A curious look at the 7th art, the Cannes decor as a backdrop 🌴: Spike Lee in the spotlight on the official poster of # Cannes2021!
📸Photo by Spike Lee Courtesy of Bob Peterson & Nike © All Rights Reserved / Graphics © Hartland Villa
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- Cannes Film Festival (@Festival_Cannes) June 17, 2021
A curious, personal, mischievous look
As for the choice to “display” its president, the festival writes: “Because this curious look that it will take on the work of his fellow filmmakers who come to bring news from the world, their world and inevitably a little from ours ; because this personal look that he has offered us since his very first film: shot in the heat of summer 1985 in black and white - already -, he was shaking up the cinema - already - by imposing a pioneering style, steeped in urban culture and popular; because this mischievous gaze which, despite renewed questions and unrelenting revolts for nearly four decades, never neglects entertainment. "
And the most attentive and cinephiles will have recognized which film this photo and this head comes from, namely
Nola Darling does as he pleases
, the first feature film he made in 1986 and in which he played the character. by Mars Blackmon.
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