The 2023 Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the official poster. The poster, which was shared on social media from the Cannes official handles, shows Catherine Deneuve, the iconic French actress, known for her performances in movies like &nbsp;François Truffaut's The Last Metro and &nbsp;Régis Wargnier's Indochine. The photo, as per The Hollywood Reporter, is from the set of Alain Cavalier's 1968 film La Chamade and the place is Pampelonne beach, near Saint Tropez. Catherine is a two-time César Award winner. The poster was accompanied by the caption, which read, "Côte d’Azur, 1968. The iconic Catherine Deneuve embodies what cinema should never stop being: elusive, daring, irreverent."

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Deneuve in La Chamade portrayed the character of Lucile, a beautiful and sophisticated Parisian socialite who lives a luxurious lifestyle but is emotionally detached and unfulfilled. Deneuve's performance captures Lucile's inner turmoil and conflict as she falls in love with a young aspiring artist, Antoine, played by Nino Castelnuovo.

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With a career spanning over six decades, Deneuve, now 79, has appeared in more than 100 films, becoming a global cultural icon in the process. Her on-screen persona was often characterised by her effortless elegance, natural beauty, and magnetic allure. Beyond her acting career, Deneuve is also known for her iconic sense of style and her advocacy for various social causes.&nbsp;

Meanwhile, Johnny Depp’s return to the acting, Jeanne du Barry, is all set to open the Cannes festival. The festival has a killer lineup this year. Martin Scorsese's latest Killers of the Flower Moon,&nbsp;James Mangold's Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny as well as India's own Anurag Kashyap's Kennedy will screen in Out of Competition category.

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The 2023 Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the official poster. The poster, which was shared on social media from the Cannes official handles, shows Catherine Deneuve, the iconic French actress, known for her performances in movies like François Truffaut's The Last Metro and Régis Wargnier's Indochine.

The 2023 Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the official poster. The poster, which was shared on social media from the Cannes official handles, shows Catherine Deneuve, the iconic French actress, known for her performances in movies like François Truffaut's The Last Metro and Régis Wargnier's Indochine. The photo, as per The Hollywood Reporter, is from the set of Alain Cavalier's 1968 film La Chamade and the place is Pampelonne beach, near Saint Tropez. Catherine is a two-time César Award winner. The poster was accompanied by the caption, which read, "Côte d’Azur, 1968. The iconic Catherine Deneuve embodies what cinema should never stop being: elusive, daring, irreverent." Côte d’Azur, 1968. The iconic Catherine Deneuve embodies what cinema should never stop being: elusive, daring, irreverent. Here is the poster of the 76th Festival de Cannes. From May 16 to 27, let's celebrate the love of cinema. #Cannes2023 ► https://t.co/3UcKr9mDcT pic.twitter.com/aqkT7HCnPc — Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) April 19, 2023 × "Here is the poster of the 76th Festival de Cannes. From May 16 to 27, let's celebrate the love of cinema. #Cannes2023" the caption added. Deneuve in La Chamade portrayed the character of Lucile, a beautiful and sophisticated Parisian socialite who lives a luxurious lifestyle but is emotionally detached and unfulfilled. Deneuve's performance captures Lucile's inner turmoil and conflict as she falls in love with a young aspiring artist, Antoine, played by Nino Castelnuovo. With a career spanning over six decades, Deneuve, now 79, has appeared in more than 100 films, becoming a global cultural icon in the process. Her on-screen persona was often characterised by her effortless elegance, natural beauty, and magnetic allure. Beyond her acting career, Deneuve is also known for her iconic sense of style and her advocacy for various social causes. Meanwhile, Johnny Depp’s return to the acting, Jeanne du Barry, is all set to open the Cannes festival. The festival has a killer lineup this year. Martin Scorsese's latest Killers of the Flower Moon, James Mangold's Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny as well as India's own Anurag Kashyap's Kennedy will screen in Out of Competition category. WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

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Tolerance and non-judgemental understanding may be the best way to try to save radicalised young Europeans who want to go and join militant Islamists in Middle Eastern conflicts, veteran French actress Catherine Deneuve said on February 12.

'Farewell to the Night', which premiered on Tuesday at the Berlin Film Festival, tells the story of Muriel, played by Deneuve, and her attempt to stop her grandson from joining Islamic State in Syria.

"The character in the film is certainly an intelligent woman, but she is also very tolerant, she is somebody who doesn't judge, who tries to understand. So, that's the message I think," Deneuve told a news conference.

Muriel's quiet life on a horse-breeding farm in rural France is interrupted by a visit from her grandson Alex whom she raised after his mother's death in an accident.

He has stopped by the farm to say goodbye to her before supposedly leaving to take up a job in Canada. During his short stay, Muriel finds out that her grandson has been converted to Islam through his girlfriend Lila.

Muriel, herself born in Algeria, accepts her grandson's new religion and tries to understand him. But she later learns that Alex plans to leave for Syria to join Islamic State and she becomes torn between trying to dissuade him from going and having the authorities intervene.

"The point of the film for me was about how this down-to-earth woman who could be very authoritarian-like, who loves animals, and loves the plants around her, there's the fruit trees and so on that we see and how all of a sudden, she can find her way to help her grandson when she realises that he's crossed over to the other side, what can she do? What could we do if we found ourselves in that kind of situation?" director Andre Techine said.

Techine said he wanted the audience to ask themselves what they would do if they found themselves in that situation.

Muriel turns for help to an ex-jihadist who returned to France after trying to live in Syria for a while.

The film portrays Alex as having little understanding of Islam or of the political situation in Syria. The internet is his primary source of information about his religion and, for him and Lila, life after death is the only one worth living.

Much of the characters' dialogue in the film is drawn from interviews with de-radicalised jihadists, Techine said.

"These are actually their own words ... I wanted those words to be heard by the audience," he said.

Out of more than 5,000 Europeans - mostly from Britain, France, Germany and Belgium - known to have joined the ranks of Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq, some 1,500 have returned, Europe's police agency said last year.

Tolerance and non-judgemental understanding may be the best way to try to save radicalised young Europeans who want to go and join militant Islamists in Middle Eastern conflicts, veteran French actress Catherine Deneuve said on February 12.

Tolerance and non-judgemental understanding may be the best way to try to save radicalised young Europeans who want to go and join militant Islamists in Middle Eastern conflicts, veteran French actress Catherine Deneuve said on February 12. 'Farewell to the Night', which premiered on Tuesday at the Berlin Film Festival, tells the story of Muriel, played by Deneuve, and her attempt to stop her grandson from joining Islamic State in Syria. "The character in the film is certainly an intelligent woman, but she is also very tolerant, she is somebody who doesn't judge, who tries to understand. So, that's the message I think," Deneuve told a news conference. Muriel's quiet life on a horse-breeding farm in rural France is interrupted by a visit from her grandson Alex whom she raised after his mother's death in an accident. He has stopped by the farm to say goodbye to her before supposedly leaving to take up a job in Canada. During his short stay, Muriel finds out that her grandson has been converted to Islam through his girlfriend Lila. Muriel, herself born in Algeria, accepts her grandson's new religion and tries to understand him. But she later learns that Alex plans to leave for Syria to join Islamic State and she becomes torn between trying to dissuade him from going and having the authorities intervene. "The point of the film for me was about how this down-to-earth woman who could be very authoritarian-like, who loves animals, and loves the plants around her, there's the fruit trees and so on that we see and how all of a sudden, she can find her way to help her grandson when she realises that he's crossed over to the other side, what can she do? What could we do if we found ourselves in that kind of situation?" director Andre Techine said. Techine said he wanted the audience to ask themselves what they would do if they found themselves in that situation. Muriel turns for help to an ex-jihadist who returned to France after trying to live in Syria for a while. The film portrays Alex as having little understanding of Islam or of the political situation in Syria. The internet is his primary source of information about his religion and, for him and Lila, life after death is the only one worth living. Much of the characters' dialogue in the film is drawn from interviews with de-radicalised jihadists, Techine said. "These are actually their own words ... I wanted those words to be heard by the audience," he said. Out of more than 5,000 Europeans - mostly from Britain, France, Germany and Belgium - known to have joined the ranks of Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq, some 1,500 have returned, Europe's police agency said last year.

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France&rsquo;s most revered actress Catherine Deneuve declared Tuesday that men should be &quot;free to hit on&quot; women, condemning a new &quot;puritanism&quot; she claimed has been sparked by <a href="http://www.wionews.com/videos/gravitas-top-hollywood-stars-join-hands-against-harassment-7738" target="_blank">sexual harassment scandals</a>.&nbsp;

She was one of around 100 French women writers, performers and academics who wrote an open letter deploring the wave of &quot;denunciations&quot; that has followed claims that <a href="http://www.wionews.com/world/hollywood-mogul-weinstein-accused-of-rape-21257" target="_blank">Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted</a> and harassed women over decades.

They branded it a &quot;witch-hunt&quot; that they claim threatens sexual freedom.

&quot;Rape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or cack-handedly, is not -- nor is being gentlemanly a macho attack,&quot; said the letter published in the daily Le Monde.

&quot;Men have been punished summarily, forced out of their jobs when all they did was touch someone`s knee or try to steal a kiss,&quot; said the letter, which was also signed by Catherine Millet, author of the hugely explicit 2002 memoir, &quot;The Sexual Life of Catherine M.&quot;.

Men had been dragged through the mud, they argued, for &quot;talking about intimate subjects during professional dinners or for sending sexually-charged messages to women who did not return their attentions&quot;. The letter attacked feminist social media campaigns like #MeToo and its French equivalent #Balancetonporc (Call out your pig) for unleashing this &quot;puritanical... wave of purification&quot;.

It claimed that &quot;legitimate and necessary protest against the sexual violence that women are subject to, particularly in their professional lives&quot;, had turned into a witch-hunt.

&quot;What began as freeing women up to speak has today turned into the opposite -- we intimidate people into speaking `correctly`, shout down those who don`t fall into line, and those women who refused to bend (to the new realities) are regarded as complicit and traitors.&quot;

&quot;The accidents of life that might touch a woman`s body should not necessarily affect her dignity, and should not -- no matter how hard they are -- make her a perpetual victim,&quot; the letter argued.

Some women who were strong enough to demand equal pay, it claimed, would &quot;not be traumatised forever by a fondler on the metro&quot;, even if it is a crime, preferring to see it as a &quot;non-event&quot;.

The signatories -- which included a porn star-turned-agony aunt -- claimed they were defending sexual freedom, for which &quot;the liberty to seduce and importune was essential.&quot;

Oscar-nominated Deneuve, 74, is best known internationally for playing a bored housewife who spends her afternoons as a prostitute in Luis Bunuel classic 1967 film &quot;Belle du Jour&quot;.

The letter got a mostly hostile reception on social media, quickly becoming the most tweeted story on Twitter in France.

Deneuve had earlier expressed annoyance with the #MeToo social media campaign to shame men accused of harassing women.

&quot;I don`t think it is the right method to change things, it is excessive,&quot; she said last year. &quot;After `Calling out your pig` what are we going to have, `Call out your whore?`&quot; she said.&quot;Instead of helping women, this frenzy to send (male chauvinist) `pigs` to the abattoir actually helps the enemies of sexual liberty -- religious extremists and the worst sort of reactionaries,&quot; the collective of women who signed the letter said.

&quot;As women we do not recognise ourselves in this feminism, which beyond denouncing the abuse of power, takes on a hatred of men and of sexuality.&quot;

They insisted that women were &quot;sufficiently aware that the sexual urge is by its nature wild and aggressive. But we are also clear-eyed enough not to confuse an awkward attempt to pick someone up with a sexual attack.&quot;

The spectacle of men being forced into &quot;public confessions... and having to rack their brains and apologise for `inappropriate behaviour` that might have happened 10, 20 or 30 years before... recalled totalitarian societies,&quot; the letter went on.

This &quot;puritan wave&quot; was already bringing censorship in its wake, the women insisted, claiming that some of them had already been asked to make the male characters in their writing &quot;less sexist&quot;, and told to tone down certain scenes to &quot;better show the trauma suffered by female characters&quot;.&nbsp;

Deneuve sparked an outcry last March for her fulsome support of French-based director Roman Polanski, who is still wanted in the United States for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

While his victim Samantha Geimer wants the case dropped so she can get on with her life, Deneuve told French television that she &quot;always found the word `rape` excessive&quot; in the circumstances. 
The French broadcasting watchdog later called her comments &quot;retrograde&quot;.

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She was one of around 100 French women writers, performers and academics who wrote an open letter deploring the wave of 'denunciations' that has followed claims that Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted and harassed women over decades.

France’s most revered actress Catherine Deneuve declared Tuesday that men should be "free to hit on" women, condemning a new "puritanism" she claimed has been sparked by sexual harassment scandals. She was one of around 100 French women writers, performers and academics who wrote an open letter deploring the wave of "denunciations" that has followed claims that Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted and harassed women over decades. They branded it a "witch-hunt" that they claim threatens sexual freedom. "Rape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or cack-handedly, is not -- nor is being gentlemanly a macho attack," said the letter published in the daily Le Monde. "Men have been punished summarily, forced out of their jobs when all they did was touch someone`s knee or try to steal a kiss," said the letter, which was also signed by Catherine Millet, author of the hugely explicit 2002 memoir, "The Sexual Life of Catherine M.". Men had been dragged through the mud, they argued, for "talking about intimate subjects during professional dinners or for sending sexually-charged messages to women who did not return their attentions". The letter attacked feminist social media campaigns like #MeToo and its French equivalent #Balancetonporc (Call out your pig) for unleashing this "puritanical... wave of purification". It claimed that "legitimate and necessary protest against the sexual violence that women are subject to, particularly in their professional lives", had turned into a witch-hunt. "What began as freeing women up to speak has today turned into the opposite -- we intimidate people into speaking `correctly`, shout down those who don`t fall into line, and those women who refused to bend (to the new realities) are regarded as complicit and traitors." "The accidents of life that might touch a woman`s body should not necessarily affect her dignity, and should not -- no matter how hard they are -- make her a perpetual victim," the letter argued. Some women who were strong enough to demand equal pay, it claimed, would "not be traumatised forever by a fondler on the metro", even if it is a crime, preferring to see it as a "non-event". The signatories -- which included a porn star-turned-agony aunt -- claimed they were defending sexual freedom, for which "the liberty to seduce and importune was essential." Oscar-nominated Deneuve, 74, is best known internationally for playing a bored housewife who spends her afternoons as a prostitute in Luis Bunuel classic 1967 film "Belle du Jour". The letter got a mostly hostile reception on social media, quickly becoming the most tweeted story on Twitter in France. Deneuve had earlier expressed annoyance with the #MeToo social media campaign to shame men accused of harassing women. "I don`t think it is the right method to change things, it is excessive," she said last year. "After `Calling out your pig` what are we going to have, `Call out your whore?`" she said."Instead of helping women, this frenzy to send (male chauvinist) `pigs` to the abattoir actually helps the enemies of sexual liberty -- religious extremists and the worst sort of reactionaries," the collective of women who signed the letter said. "As women we do not recognise ourselves in this feminism, which beyond denouncing the abuse of power, takes on a hatred of men and of sexuality." They insisted that women were "sufficiently aware that the sexual urge is by its nature wild and aggressive. But we are also clear-eyed enough not to confuse an awkward attempt to pick someone up with a sexual attack." The spectacle of men being forced into "public confessions... and having to rack their brains and apologise for `inappropriate behaviour` that might have happened 10, 20 or 30 years before... recalled totalitarian societies," the letter went on. This "puritan wave" was already bringing censorship in its wake, the women insisted, claiming that some of them had already been asked to make the male characters in their writing "less sexist", and told to tone down certain scenes to "better show the trauma suffered by female characters". Deneuve sparked an outcry last March for her fulsome support of French-based director Roman Polanski, who is still wanted in the United States for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977. While his victim Samantha Geimer wants the case dropped so she can get on with her life, Deneuve told French television that she "always found the word `rape` excessive" in the circumstances. The French broadcasting watchdog later called her comments "retrograde".

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Catherine Deneuve's new film that premiered at Berlin film fest explores Islamist radicalisation

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