This year’s Cannes International Film Festival is on its way in less than two months now. While we wait to see what will be offered in competition and beyond, the festival’s organisers have put out the official poster for the 2015 event, which features the iconic Ingrid Bergman. For the poster itself, look lower down the page, but there is also a brief animation fashioned by the image’s creator, Hervé Chigioni, who worked alongside graphic designer Gilles Frappier.
Bergman, who worked with directors as varied as Alfred Hitchcock, Roberto Rossellini and Ingmar Bergman, also served as president of the festival jury in 1973, so it seems only fitting that her visage will appear over and across it. “My family and I are deeply moved that the Festival de Cannes has chosen to feature our magnificent mother on the official poster to mark the centenary of her birth,” Isabella Rossellini says in a statement on the festival’s site. “Her outstanding career covered so many countries, from the smallest European independent films to the greatest Hollywood productions. Mum adored working as an actress: for her acting was not a profession but vocation. As she put it, ‘I didn’t choose acting, acting chose me.’”
The festival this year runs May 13-24 and will feature a presentation of Stig Björkman’s documentary** Ingrid Bergman, In Her Own Words**. With Joel and Ethan Coen serving as the head of this year’s jury, the Official Selection will be announced on April 16.