Harmony Korine Unveils Painting For Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight Poster (and Introduces His ‘Happy’ Twitchys)

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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.

From “Spring Breakers” director Harmony Korine, the painting features two blurry faces in red and yellow, which Korine introduced as “Twitchys”

“The characters in the painting are called Twitchys,” he said in a quote on the competition’s social media pages. “They are always lurking and playing. They are very happy to be at Cannes.”

According to the Directors’ Fortnight, Korine’s “poetry and crazy energy set the tone for the 57th edition!”

Korine’s last two films — the wildly experimental and video-game inspired “Aggro Dr1ft” and “Baby Invasion” — premiered at the 2023 and 2024 editions of the Venice Film Festival, respectively. 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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2025-03-18 14:49