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Jessica Brown
Mar 30, 2017
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Bronx Agence Paris
Another day, another blow to body positivity.
This time, it's the official poster for this year's Cannes Film Festival.
A gif has been shared on Twitter of what looks like the original photo, which was taken in 1959, and then the version on the front of Cannes’ magazine.
It shows the model, actor Claudia Cardinale's waist cinched in, and her thigh is lengthened and made to look slimmer. Her arm looks like it's been Photoshopped, too.
It's even made her feet smaller.
This is not okay. https://t.co/5XTRQCESqU— Notebook (@Notebook) 1490803691
The website states next to the poster:
She dances, she laughs, she lives!
The poster has faced criticism. French Le Monde, which has provided a handy slider tool to show the difference between the two images, asks, “Is Claudia Cardinale not enough 'perfect' to appear as it was at the Cannes Film Festival? Apparently not".
Why the need to alter Claudia Cardinale's body so dramatically for #Cannes2017 official poster? https://t.co/jvMEfejZUc— Anna Rose Holmer (@Anna Rose Holmer) 1490801986
@BARFH @RebeccaPahle I get so sad because I feel so much lighter when I get to see women actually look how they look, you know?— Katie Schenkel writes books (@Katie Schenkel writes books) 1490803285
But Cardinale herself, now aged 78, has called it a “false controversy”. She told AFP:
This is a poster that, beyond representing me, represents a dance, a flight. This image has been retouched to accentuate this effect of lightness and transpose me into a dreamed character, it is a sublimation.
indy100 has contacted Cannes Film Festival for comment.
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