Let the drums roll and the hands clap, for Cinema has announced its new Goddess!

Last week, Le Festival de Cannes released its 63rd official poster. Starring in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Michael Haneke’s Code Inconnu and Caché or Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Le voyage du ballon rouge, Juliette Binoche became one of the most magnetic symbols of high-class Francophone film. It’s now time for her to personify the 7th art in a gracious and powerful image, completed with grafic design by Annick Durban.

This image comes from Brigitte Lacombe, a French photographer living in New York whose career is tightly linked to cinema. After leaving school at an early age, she became an apprentice at Elle Magazine photo lab and found success in behind-the-scenes photography and celebrity portraits.

With Tim Burton as President of the Jury and Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood to be screened on the opening night, this year’s Festival seems to delve into pop culture. If last year’s visuals, created by the same designer, featured the Antonioniesque behind of Monica Vitti, this year’s poster has the feel of street art gone glam. Let’s just all pray the chromatic choice is not part of "the Avatar effect" and enjoy a sample of simplicity turned into beauty.

by Andreea Dobre

© Brigitte Lacombe – graphic design Annick Durban