Cannes Film Festival celebrates Ingrid Bergman's centenary with poster

One of the most famous smiles in film history will grace the poster for the 68th Cannes Film Festival. To mark the 100th anniversary of her birth, Ingrid Bergman will be front and center on the poster.

The mostly-white poster features a black and white picture of the three-time Oscar winner smiling, with the name of the festival in thin, blue type. The photograph was taken by David Seymour and the poster was designed by Harve Chigioni with graphic designer Gilles Frappier. They also worked on last year’s poster, which featured Marcello Mastroianni.

“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,” Bergman’s daughter, actress Isabella Rossellini, said in a statement. “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.’”

In addition to the poster tribute, Stig Bjorkman’s documentary Ingrid Bergman, In Her Own Words, will be screened during the Cannes Classics section of the festival.

This year’s Cannes Film Festival will run from May 13-24. American directors Joel and Ethan Coen will be the jury presidents.

Bergman was born in Sweden in 1915 and died in 1982 after a battle with breast cancer. She is best known for her roles in Casablanca, Notorious and Stromboli. She won Best Actress Oscars for Gaslight and Anastasia and won Best Supporting Actress for Murder on the Orient Express.

image from festival-cannes.fr

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