Cannes Film Festival - Les posters from birthday editions from 1946 to 2022

Only two days more and will start the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival which will take place from May 17 to 28, 2022. An anniversary edition, with some specificities, including:

A palm of gold set with diamonds. On one of the leaflets, 75 diamonds representing the number of festival editions, and on another, 25 diamonds like the number of years of collaboration with Maison Chopard, which manufactures and offers this famous trophy.
Tuesday May 24 will be a special anniversary day, with many guests, filmmakers, artists, actors, and a conference during which these professionals will come to think, express, think aloud, what is to be a filmmaker today and how all they see their job in the future? With festival directors, there will also be a reflection on the place and role of film festivals around the world.
The same day, at 6.45 p.m., an anniversary evening at the Grand Théâtre Lumière, with the projection, out of competition, of the film Innocent by Louis Garrel.
As Wim Wenders had done in 1982, which for the needs of his documentary Room 666, had settled in a hotel room on the Croisette and had interviewed filmmakers, including Jean-Luc Godard, Paul Morrissey, Susan Seidelman, Werner Herzog, Robert Kramer, Maraoun Bagdadi and Steven Spielberg to ask them a simple question: “Is cinema a language getting lost, an art dying? », A young director decided to return to the Croisette to ask these questions again. Compare the responses of 1982 and those of today will be interesting!

A few days ago, the Cannes Film Festival had unveiled the anniversary poster of the 75th edition. This anniversary is also an opportunity to discover or rediscover the birthday posters of previous editions, since the creation of the festival in 1946 to the present day. Some of these posters have been frightened and even seem to be a bit off topic. That of 1946 for example is more a poster of tourist destination than a poster for a film festival, especially in its first edition. On the other hand, that of the 65th edition, with Marilyn Monroe blowing a candle on a birthday cake is just sublime. We could almost hear Marilyn to whisper with her captivating voice a “Happy Birthday Mister Festival”, as she had done for a certain president!

There are two posters 20th anniversary because there were two 20th birthdays of the Cannes Film Festival, one in 1966 to celebrate the 20 years of the festival, and the other in 1967 to celebrate the 20th edition, since the two editions of 1948 and 1950 had been canceled for lack of budget. Subsequently, only the birthdays of editions were taken into account.

A palm of gold occupies the whole anniversary poster of the 50th edition in 1997. It is indeed from this date that the collaboration with Chopard began and that the Palme d’Or was redesigned for the last time. She has remained unchanged to date.

It was also in 1997 that during the closing ceremony, the Egyptian director Youssef Chahine received the prize for the 50th anniversary of the festival for all of his work from Isabelle Adjani, president of the jury.

Cannes festival- 5th anniversary poster in 1952.