A still from Akira Kurosawa's film about the American bombing of Japan is featured on the poster of the 77th Cannes Film Festival
There is a tradition at the Cannes Film Festival. Each year the festival presents a new poster that adorns the city's embankment, the main entrance to the Palais des Film Festivals, in front of the red carpet.
As representatives of the Cannes Film Festival say: “All the poetic beauty, hypnotic magic and apparent simplicity of cinema are revealed in this scene from “Rhapsody in August” by the great Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, who was 81 years old at the time. In this film, presented out of competition at Cannes in 1991, a grandmother who survived the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, passes on her belief in love and honesty as a bulwark against war to her grandchildren and American nephew with tenderness and contemplation. The director's penultimate film reminds us of the importance of unity and the pursuit of harmony in everything. This poster celebrates the Seventh Art... <...> In a fragile world that constantly questions otherness, the Cannes Festival reaffirms the belief that cinema is a universal refuge for self-expression and exchange of experience."
Source: press service of the Cannes Film Festival
The Official Poster of the 77th Festival de Cannes was designed by Hartland Villa (Lionel Avignon and Stefan de Vivies).
Poster credits: © Shochiku Co., Ltd. / Kurosawa Prod. – Graphic design: © Hartland Villa
still from Rhapsody in August by Akira Kurosawa (1991)
