For the sixth year running, we are designing the poster for the Cannes International Film Festival.

This year, we have decided to pay tribute to two heroic rebels. Thirty-five years after the world premiere of Ridley Scott’s film on 20 May 1991 in Cannes, Thelma and Louise return to the poster. These two fighters turned the tables and shattered gender stereotypes – both societal and cinematic; they embody absolute freedom and unwavering friendship. Themes that were particularly avant-garde in 1991 and still resonate strongly today. To embody them, we have chosen this black-and-white photograph that celebrates life and the timeless struggles for the freedom to be oneself.
The two protagonists of cinema’s first female-led and feminist road movie took the plunge, carried by a wind of freedom blowing at their backs. They have become immortal icons. Today, they face us. And reflect on their legacy.

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_{Credit for the official poster of the 79th Cannes Film Festival: Photo by Roland Neveu, on the set of Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991) © MGM Studios / Graphic design © Hartland Villa}

11 days of festival between Philharmonie de Paris & La Villette from August 28 to September 7 

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A man.
A woman.
A deserted beach.
A turbulent sky.
Intoxicating music.
A 3-month-old idea.
A 3-week shoot.
A 20-second scene.
Eternity lasts but a moment in the end.

It was 60 years ago. In 1965, two damaged beings played by Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant met, charmed each other, resisted, and finally twirled under Claude Lelouch's incandescent camera. The Palme d'or in Cannes in 1966, the two Oscars in Hollywood in 1967 and the dozens of awards around the world pale in comparison to this grandiose moment of tenderness, simplicity and beauty.
Because it is undoubtedly the 7th Art’s most famous embrace ("étreinte" in French, the anagram of "éternité"), because you can't separate a man and a woman who love each other, because you can't separate that Man from that Woman, the Festival de Cannes has chosen for the first time in its history to present a double official poster. A Man and a Woman. Side by side. Back together.

— He: When something’s not serious, we says it’s like a film. Why aren’t films taken seriously, do you think?
— She: Maybe because we only go to the cinema when all is going well? 
— He: So you think we should go when all is going wrong? 
— She: Why not? 
During times that seem to want to separate, compartmentalize or subjugate, the Festival de Cannes wants to (re)unite; to bring bodies, hearts and souls closer together; to encourage freedom and portray movement in order to perpetuate it; to embody the whirlwind of life to celebrate it, again and again.

This man and this woman who both won awards in Cannes —Best Actor (Z, 1969), Best Actress (A Leap in the Dark (Salto nel vuoto), 1980)— are no more. These two posters also pay homage. Magnificent heroes of delicacy and seduction, Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant forever illuminate the film of our lives, like these two posters, whose colors express the intensity of a passionate love that triumphs over despair. This light no longer comes from the heavens, today troubled on all sides by dark clouds; it emerges from the radiant fusion of two beings who reconcile us with life.

 

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Gallica is the digital library of the National Library of France. It offers several million documents that can be consulted and downloaded for free: books, manuscripts, maps and plans, prints, photographs, posters... We were called upon to redesign the image and rethink the ergonomics of its home page.

15th edition of graphic design complicity for Hartland Villa with the Jazz à la Villette festival on the stages of the Philharmonie de Paris and the Cité de la Musique from Thursday August 29 to Sunday September 8. On the menu ? Brad Mehldau, Delgres, Mahalia, Alice Russell, Kenny Garrett, Tinariwen or even the project The Strangers (General Elektriks, Leeroy, Lateef the Truthspeaker) without forgetting Omar, Curtis Harding, Knower...

Previous posters on  jazz a la villette 

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The Festival remains true to its identity by offering a program of excellence, welcoming the greatest artists and the most beautiful symphonic groups of the moment, while welcoming promising young artists. 33 paid concerts and 39 free events from August 21 to 31, 2024 in Loire, Puy-de-Dôme and Haute-Loire.

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