The official poster for this year’s Cannes film festival has been criticised after Italian actor Claudia Cardinale appeared to have been airbrushed to make her look thinner.
French media poured scorn on the festival for seemingly tampering with a photograph of Cardinale swirling her skirt on a Rome roof in 1959.
Cardinale said in a statement released by the festival that she was honoured to feature on the poster for its 70th anniversary year.
“Claudia Cardinale dropped a dress size in one swirl,” said the left-leaning Libération, while the culture magazine Télérama questioned why it was necessary to retouch the star.