The official poster for the Cannes Film Festival has been revealed. The poster featuring a man climbing stairs that over the Mediterranean sea is inspired by Jean-Luc Goddard’s film, Contempt. Jack Palance plays a Hollywood producer in the satire. The Cannes website says, “On the eve of its 70th anniversary, by choosing to represent itself under the symbol of this simultaneously palimpsest and unambiguous film, the Festival is reiterating its founding commitment: to pay tribute to the history of film, and to welcome new ways of creating and seeing. The steps represent a kind of ascension towards the infinite horizon of a cinema screen.
Herve Chigioni and Gilles Frappie designed the poster for the festival which takes place from May 11 to May 22.
See the poster below: