On June 1st, 1968, Catherine Deneuve was on the set of Alain Cavalier's La Chamade, an adaptation of Françoise Sagan's novel, filmed on the beach of Pampelonne near Saint-Tropez. In the movie, she played Lucile, a character who leads a superficial life of luxury and ease, and whose heart beats with passion and frenzy. This same passion is shared by the world of cinema, celebrated every year by the Cannes Film Festival, whose lively and inhabited pulsations can be felt everywhere. Catherine Deneuve, an icon of French cinema for more than 60 years, has worked with renowned directors such as Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, Marco Ferreri, Manoel de Oliveira, André Téchiné, Emmanuelle Bercot, and Arnaud Desplechin. She has always experimented and dared to take on challenging roles, refusing to be pinned down as a static icon, thus keeping her art alive. She represents the richness of cinema that the Festival seeks to defend, ranging from auteur films to quality popular films. Her glorious career began in 1964 with Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. This was followed by Roman Polanski's Repulsion, which won the Silver Bear at Berlin in 1965, Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Life is a Bed of Roses, Jacques Demy's The Young Girls of Rochefort, and Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour. She also signed the "Manifesto of the 343" in 1971, which called for the legalization of abortion, as well as a collective text in 2018, in which a hundred women rejected "puritanism, denunciation, and any expeditious justice." Catherine Deneuve also starred in Régis Wargnier's Indochine, which to this day remains the last French film to have won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in 1993. She was the vice-president of Clint Eastwood's jury in 1994, which honored Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. In 2000, she won her second Palme d'Or with Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark. In 2005, she received an honorary Palme d'Or, and in 2008, under the presidency of Sean Penn, the Special Prize of the 61st Festival for her entire career. In 2016, she won the Lumière Prize, which she dedicated to farmers. Catherine Deneuve embodies a certain magic, pure, incandescent, and sometimes transgressive, which reminds us of the elusive, daring, and irreverent nature that cinema should remember to be. She is both an obvious choice and a necessity. This is the magic that the 76th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival will seek to honor.
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