Varda a perennial "symbol" of Cannes: festival president French movie legend Agnès Varda, who died last month, "is really a symbol of what the festival aspires to be, of what it has represented for the past 72 years," says Cannes film festival president Pierre Lescure. Varda -- who passed away on March 29, aged 90 -- is pictured on the festival's official poster standing on the back of one of her crouching male crew members to get a shot for her film "La Pointe Courte". SOUNDBITE