From May 17 to 28, 2022, artists from the 7th art will walk the red carpet for the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. In addition to the presence of big names in cinema, this event is above all designed to put films in the spotlight. This is why one of the screening rooms has just been renamed in the name of a multi-award-winning director who is now deceased.
For its 75th edition, the Cannes Film Festival 2022 should once again to experience many emotions for its guests as well as for its spectators. Each year, artists from all over the world set down their suitcases on the Croisette to promote their latest projects, but also to allow the public to experience unforgettable sequences. There are some celebrities, however, who take advantage of a particularly intense relationship with the event…
If Catherine Deneuve is on her side pampered by the hotel in which she goes each time, a director who died in 2019 has meanwhile contributed to the success of the Cannes Film Festival and was honored. It is indeed Agnès Varda, a filmmaker who died in 2019 from cancer. She shared a long history with the event and those who bring it to life. Indeed, in addition to having been member of the feature film jury in 2005 and president of the jury of the Camera d’or in 2013, she was subsequently rewarded for all of her work in 2015 with a Palme d’honneur, a title formerly only awarded to men. The Cannes Film Festival has decided to give him back a second tribute, find out how.
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Cannes Film Festival 2022: the Sixtieth screening room renamed “Agnès Varda”
The year of his death, the organizers of the Cannes Film Festival decided to put Agnès Varda in the spotlight by dedicating their official poster to him. Three years later, the filmmaker is still not forgotten, the proof with this new tribute paid by the event. As announced on the Cannes Film Festival website, the screening room of the Soixantième will now be renamed Agnès Varda. “Agnès Varda, passion, tenderness, playfulness. Sixty-five years of creation and experimentation”, is it specified on the site of the event. Rosalie Varda and Mathieu Demy, the filmmaker’s children, are extremely touched by this gesture: “We are proud and moved that the Cannes Film Festival is once again honoring the great little Agnès. Long live the Festival! Long life to the cinema!”
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