Tribute to Swedish actress

Published: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 1:19

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 1:21

Cannes Film Festival 2015: Ingrid Bergman on the official poster (VIDEO)

The Cannes Film Festival organizers announced Monday the official poster for their 68th edition, taking place from May 13 to 24 This is a photo of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman.

The official poster of the 68th Cannes Film Festival. © David Seymour / Hervé Chigioni / Gilles Frappier / Cannes

After Marcello Mastroianni last year, Ingrid Bergman is shown on the official poster of the 68th Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24), announced Monday the organizers .

"Modern Icon free woman, bold actress Ingrid Bergman was both Hollywood star and face of neorealism, changing roles and new country according to his passions, without losing what she had grace and simplicity, "say officials Festival.
On the poster, the actress Alfred Hitchcock, Roberto Rossellini and Ingmar Bergman, who played opposite Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart or Gregory Peck, "is revealed in the evidence of its beauty, offering a serene face seems turned toward a horizon of promises. "
Ingrid Bergman, who was president of the jury of the Festival in 1973, died in 1982 at the age of 67 years. "My family and I are very touched that the Cannes Film Festival has chosen our wonderful mother to be on the official poster, the centennial year of his birth, "said Isabella Rossellini, cited by the organizers.
The poster was designed by Hervé Chigioni already author of the poster of last year , with its designer Gilles Frappier, from a photograph by David Seymour, co-founder of the Magnum agency.
He also directed an animated film (see below) from video on a remix of the theme song of the festival, Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns, with an arrangement devised by two Swedish musicians, Patrik Andersson and Andreas Söderström.

The tribute will not stop there because Ingrid Bergman, In Her Own Words, a documentary by Stig Björkman (author of books and documentaries about Woody Allen and Ingmar Bergman) will be screened in Cannes Classics.
Finally, the Cannes Film Festival will partner with Isabella Rossellini Ingrid Bergman Tribute to celebrate the centenary of the birth of his mother, will organize in September.This is a show, directed by Guido Torlonia and Ludovica Damiani, which will combine his autobiography and letters of his correspondence with Roberto Rossellini. It will be presented in the five cities that counted in the life of Ingrid Bergman: Stockholm, Rome, Paris, London and New York, and will gather on stage, in addition to Isabella Rossellini, Jeremy Irons, Fanny Ardant, Christian De Sica and others comedians. The entire show will be announced at the upcoming Festival.
The 68th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will take place from May 13 to 24 The jury will be chaired by US directors Joel and Ethan Coen . The official selection will be announced Thursday, April 16.

(See below for the animated film of the 2015 Festival from the official poster)