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Harmony Korine Unveils Painting For Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight Poster (and Introduces His ‘Happy’ Twitchys)
Harmony Korine has painted the poster of the 2025 Cannes Directors Fortnight strand, featuring characters he calls Twitchys
The Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight sidebar competition has revealed the poster for its upcoming 2025 edition, featuring a painting by one of cinema’s boundary-obliterating cult heroes. His only film to premiere in Cannes was “Mister Lonely,” about a Michael Jackson lookalike in Paris and starring Diego Luna and Samantha Morton, which bowed in 2008 in the Un Certain Regard competition. Speaking in Venice last year at the press conference for “Baby Invasion” where he puffed on a cigar while sitting alongside a neon green-masked Gaspar Noé, Korine said that “we’re starting to see Hollywood crumble creatively is because they’re losing a lot of the most creative minds to gaming and to streaming,” adding that the current film industry was “so locked in convention.”
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