The beauty of the movie "Indochina" is the symbol of the Cannes Film Festival 2023

Poster promoting Cannes Film Festival 2023 (Photo: Variety).

The photographic moment used on the poster promoting the 2023 Cannes Film Festival was taken on the set of La Chamade (1968) by French photographer Jack Garofalo. The film was directed by French filmmaker Alain Cavalier.

The story of La Chamade (the English name of the film is Heartbeat , meaning Heartbeat ). The story revolves around 25-year-old girl Lucile, the beautiful lover of rich businessman Charles. Lucile is fully provided by Charles with material things, although Charles is a kind person, Lucile has no emotional vibrations for her lover.

When she met an attractive young man of her age - Antoine, Lucile found love. She decided to break up with Charles, take a low-income job in a publishing company, to live with the person she loved. But having been used to a luxurious and lavish life for a long time, Lucile could not adapt to the new life.

When she became pregnant with Antoine, Lucile decided to have an abortion, and she had to seek financial help from Charles. Antoine initially objected, but he eventually agreed to let Lucile have an abortion, because he understood that Lucile could no longer bear living together in constant financial hardship.

Lucile's feelings for Antoine fade after her decision to have an abortion. In the end, she decides to return to Charles - her rich lover who has been quietly and patiently waiting for her to return to him.

Deneuve received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role in the film "Indochine" (Photo: Hollywood Reporter).

The reason why the Cannes Film Festival organizers chose to use the image of actress Catherine Deneuve on the set of La Chamade for the poster promoting this year's event is because the 79-year-old actress "has lived a life that is both realistic and surreal."

The Cannes Film Festival organizers assessed Deneuve as "a cinema icon that is both simple and approachable, yet luxurious and noble. Her heart is always passionate and enthusiastic about cinema."

The Cannes Film Festival organizers assessed Catherine Deneuve as "a cinematic embodiment, unlike what people are used to imagining of a star. She dares to pursue roles without compromise, always acting with her own beliefs for the roles, even though sometimes those choices make her go against the trends of the era in which she lives."

During her career, Catherine Deneuve was considered the muse of many filmmakers such as Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, Marco Ferreri, Manoel de Oliveira, André Téchiné, Emmanuelle Bercot and Arnaud Desplechin.

The films that helped Catherine Deneuve become known to the world's film-loving public include The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Repulsion, The Young Girls of Rochefort and Belle de Jour . In particular, she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role in the film Indochine (Indochina - 1992).

Deneuve in the movie "Indochine" (Photo: Hollywood Reporter).

Deneuve and Pham Linh Dan in "Indochine" (Photo: Hollywood Reporter).

Catherine Deneuve is considered one of the best actresses in the history of French cinema as well as European cinema. She often plays cold, distant and mysterious beauties.

Catherine Deneuve starred in the French film Indochine (Indochina - 1992) directed by Régis Wargnier. The film is set in Indochina in the 1930s - 1950s and was filmed mainly in Vietnam. Indochine won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Actress Catherine Deneuve was also nominated for Best Actress.

Pham Linh Dan (girl wearing hat) in the movie "Indochine" (Photo: Hollywood Reporter).

In the film, Catherine Deneuve plays a French upper-class woman living in Vietnam - Madame Éliane Devries. Éliane is the adoptive mother of Camille, a Vietnamese girl, played by Vietnamese-American actress Pham Linh Dan. The mother and her adopted daughter live together peacefully on a rubber plantation in Vietnam.

Their lives begin to unravel after a series of coincidences. They meet a young naval officer, Jean-Baptiste (actor Vincent Pérez). Both Madame Éliane and her adopted daughter Camille fall in love with the officer, and at first, the two women do not realize that they are in love with the same man.

After that, the upheavals of the times and the turning points in the characters' personal lives caused them to go through drastic and harsh changes. The film Indochine created a buzz as soon as it was released in 1992. The film gave movie lovers around the world a new perspective on Vietnam and the war through a cinematic story that left many emotions.

Trailer for the movie "Indochine" ( Video : Galaxy Cinema).

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