Cannes Critics’ Week Unveils 2023 Poster Paying Tribute to 2022 Breakout ‘Aftersun’
deadline.comOne of the early signs that the Cannes Film Festival is around the corner is the reveals of the poster for the Official Selection as well as those for the main parallel sections of Cannes Critics’ Week (Semaine de la Critique) and Directors’ Fortnight.
Cannes Critics’ Week is first out the door this year with a poster celebrating Charlotte Wells’s award-winning debut feature Aftersun.
The drama won the section’s French Touch Prize in 2022 and then enjoyed a buzzy prize-winning run on the festivals circuit. Co-star Paul Mescal went on to Oscar-nominated for his performance, while Wells won the Bafta for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer.
Mescal starred opposite newcomer Frankie Corio as a single father who takes his young daughter on holiday to a Turkish resort in the 1990s.
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