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| 71st Venice Film Festival |
The new poster for the 2014 Venice Film Festival was unveiled yesterday at the official website of the Festival.
The poster depicts the iconic final scene of Francois Truffaut's debut masterpiece, "The 400 Blows". The boy portrayed in the close-up is Antoine Doinel, the main character in Truffaut’s classic and the director’s alter ego in other memorable films (always played by Jean-Pierre Léaud).
The memorable scene, considered by many as one of the greates closing scenes in any movies ever shows the rebellious Antoine after his escape from reform school and he stares direct into the camera in the final frame against the background of a sea that he has never seen before and that he has just raced towards.
In the poster for the Venice Film Festival, Simone Massi imagines the boy surrounded by flying fish: an element of fantasy that mitigates the quizzical dimension of his gaze, as he prepares to plunge into the sea of life.
The 71st Venice International Film Festival, directed by Alberto Barbera and organized by the Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta, will be held on the Lido from August 27th to September 6th 2014.
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Raymond Lo
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