Clap d'émotions sous le festival de 100 étoiles du Cinema (2024) Painting by Coco Sicart

The artist Coco Sicart wanted to put these famous actors and comedians in the spotlight in this beautiful month of May 2024, to salute their immense talent through this oil on canvas entitled: "Clap of emotions under the festival of 100 stars of Cinema". It goes without saying that another work would be necessary to honor other actors just as renowned as those represented here. The Cannes Film Festival or international film festival takes place every year in Cannes for 12 days, the second half of May to reward the best film, the best director, the best actors and actresses (Best Actor or Actress Award) of the international competition. This Cannes Film Festival is recognized for its prestige from the point of view of film criticism. The main film screenings take place at the Palais des Festivals at the entrance to the Croisette promenade in Cannes. In 2024, the Cannes Film Festival will take place from May 14 to May 25 and is the most publicized in the world during the opening ceremony with its legendary red carpet: Red carpet required on 24 steps to achieve glory and fame! . For its 77th edition in 2024, the festival during all these years has promoted many directors, actors and awarded many Palme d'Or ... We think of the film "A Man and a Woman" by Claude Lelouch in 1966 and since that date, a Frenchman has been awarded the Palme d'Or on average every 20 years. For a dozen days, Cannes is besieged by thousands of journalists and curious people of all kinds, professional and amateur photographers who come to try to obtain exclusive shots of famous actors. Cannes becomes the capital of the film industry for nearly 15 days. The legendary red carpet walk is filmed and everything is broadcast worldwide. Prestigious couturiers, shoemakers, and jewelers are present for the event to showcase their latest creations. Every film festival is the first encounter with a work, its creators, and its audience before the film's release, which may be subject to either a reappraisal or a consecration such as the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, or the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. All these festivals allow for the discovery of gems, the promotion of films, and allow artists lacking means to find a distributor. Film festivals are located downstream from film production and upstream of exhibition and take place just before theatrical distribution. Film festivals allow a work to be presented to the whole world. Since Emile Reynaud, then the Lumière brothers and then Charles Pathé, to whom we owe the creation of the film industry, French cinema has continued to evolve and improve in order to differentiate itself from American cinema. The cinephilia movement has accelerated the artistic recognition of cinema and auteur cinema since the end of the Second World War. The cinephile is both spectator and critic. When we watch a film we are entirely absorbed by what is presented to our eyes, captivated by the story described in the film, we can go from laughter to tears, be terrified, be under the spell of an actor, or remain in suspense before discovering the key to a suspense. We instantly think of the films of Alfred Hitchcock who was a major filmmaker. Louis Jouvet wrote in 1938 that an actor could only play certain roles and that an actor could play all roles. Thus Alain Delon will say that he was a true Actor because he always lived his own roles, without ever playing them, and that his career had nothing to do with the profession of actor. But it is true that in the French language the two terms are used without any particular distinction. Alain Delon is clearly an undisputed and undeniable star of French cinema. He is a lively and sincere soul with an iconic and timeless beauty that fascinates us all. Alain Delon is a true seducer, both solar and magnetic, very instinctive, who acted in his career as he was in his life. His childhood wounds will be at the origin of his sensitivity and will always be prey to a feeling of solitude. The 50s are marked by the beginning of his career and the 60s will be an uninterrupted succession of successes that will allow him to rise to the rank of gods of the seventh art, to the rank of Star. We think of the film "Plein Soleil" and in 1961 "Rocco and His Brothers" by Luchino Visconti. It is true that Alain Delon had a truly exceptional acting career. Another immense French actress that we can also honor is Catherine Deneuve. She has played completely different roles each time, going from comedy to drama, from thriller to fantasy and has won many awards and Césars for Best Actress, and acting or honorary awards at Cannes, Venice or Berlin. Catherine Deneuve is an iconic actress who has honored us since she began practicing this profession and has made French cinema shine throughout the world. Let us not forget that she was the muse of Yves Saint Laurent for a very long time, with whom she maintained an immense friendship. Catherine Deneuve is truly a true French Diva, which is why Coco Sicart wanted to draw and display her portrait in this final oil on canvas. And finally, how can we not be proud of Louis de Funès, this Master in the Art of laughter and comedy who entertained us so much! We think of "La folie des grandeurs" in 1971, "Le gendarme de Saint Tropez" in 1964, "La grande vadrouille" in 1966 with Bourvil, "Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob" in 1973. All these unforgettable mythical films, forever engraved in our collective memories, which have become cult forever, make us laugh until we cry and we applaud them always and for a long time... These films made by these thousands of talented actors and genius directors cross and will cross the centuries by constantly providing us with beautiful emotions and wonderful sensations. Knowing that our emotions release hormones that change our behavior and our lives, then let us continue to soak up this flow of positive energy through this cinematographic art to make us better and thus develop our powers of creation to infinity. All these stars of cinema were born to light up and illuminate our faces and cross all our sensory organs in order to make them vibrate in unison. And to conclude this writing, we can end with this sentence from Claude Lelouch: "Cinema is better than Life!" Publication of the work: "Clap of emotions under the festival of 100 stars of Cinema", May 6, 2024.
Names of the artists appearing on the work, from left to right and from top to bottom: Nathalie Portman, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, Grace Kelly, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Isabelle Huppert, Alfred Hitchcock, Louis de Funès (the gendarme in St Tropez), Louis de Funès (Harpagon), Louis de Funès (Rabbi Jacob), Bourvil, Bourvil, Jean Gabin, Gérard Oury, Lino Ventura, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Claudia Cardinale, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Elodie Fontan, Marx Groucho, Jean Dujardin, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon, Marion Cotillard, François Cluzet, Georges Clooney, Mimi Mathy, Line Renaud, Gad El Maleh, Sandrine Kiberlain, Emmanuelle Béart, Philippe Lacheau, , O Mar Sy , Julia Roberts, Dany Boom, Emmanuelle Devos, Pierre Arditti, Léa Drucker, Jérome Commandeur, Camille Cottin, Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, José Garcia, Virginie Effira, Franck Dubosc, Kad Merad, Judith Godrèche, Claude Lelouch, Laura Met, Tahar Rahim, Mathilde Seigner, Elsa Zyberstein, Gérard Darmon, Damien Chazelle, Jonhy Depp, Ahmed Sylla, Jamel Debbouze, Elie Semoun, Robert de Niro, Sophie Marceau, Cécile de France, Fanny Ardent, Audrey Fleurot, Angelina Jolie, Catherine Frot, Léa Seydoux, Leïla Bekhti, Michèle Pfeifer, Audrey and Alexandra Lamy, Leonardo di Caprio, Audrey Tautou, Michèle Laroque, Coluche, Francis Huster, Micheline Presle, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux, Guillaume Canet, Marie Trintignant, Diane Kruger, Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Jean Paul Belmondo, Valérie Bonneton, Ingrid Chauvin, Jean-Luc Reichmann, Elizabeth Taylor (as Cleopatra in 1964), Annie Dupeyrey, Francis Perrin, Pascal Legitimus, Corinne Touzet, Clint Eastwood, Didier Bourdon, Sylvester Stallone, Romy Schneider, Alain Delon (Le Samouraï), and Catherine Deneuve.