Claudia Cardinale in this year's Cannes poster!

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The 70th Cannes Film Festival has released this year's event poster featuring a sparkling Claudia Cardinale, to smile, to dance, to inspire!   After 'Contempt’ of Godard and the faces of Ingrid Bergman, Marcello Mastroianni, Marilyn Monroe, Joan Woodward and Paul Newman…the legendary Claudia Cardinale is the face of this year's Cannes poster and promises 'a feast of passionate red and glittering gold'.   The Cardinale, actress who visited Cannes for the first time on 1961 with two films in the official competition section (‘Girl With A Suitcase’, 'La Viaccia'), with Jean Paul Belmondo, returned it 1963 with Gatopardo’ of Visconti and '8 1/2’ by Fellini, while her other contributions include 'La Pelle', Fitzcarraldo’ of Herzog, ‘Henry IV’ of Bellocchio et al.   The festival said today about the poster: He dances, he laughs, he lives! What better way to sum up the next Festival than Claudia Cardinale, the image of an adventurous actress, independent woman and social activist;’.   Continue at source ...