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Cannes Film Festival: desperately looking for scandal

2022-05-24T16:05:24.076Z


THE CHRONICLE OF FRANÇOIS AUBEL – Between the president of the jury Vincent Lindon who must judge a film in which his daughter plays and an interview with Thierry Frémaux redacted by our American colleagues, attempts to launch controversies remain a dead letter. For the moment…


We would need a

Mektoub My Love

by Abdellatif Kechiche or a good controversy with a film by Gaspar Noé, that would wake up the Croisette.

To the great despair of this festival-goer, no scandal seems to want to cling to Cannes this year.

Attempts to launch controversies are however not lacking.

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Even before the arrival of Tom Cruise on the red carpet that his detractors assign to his sole status of "Scientologist", the Deadline site refused to publish the interview with Thierry Frémaux.

According to our American colleagues, the latter would have asked to withdraw certain questions.

The general delegate disagrees, he wanted to "

adjust

" his remarks on subjects he knows are sensitive, such as diversity in cinema and Roman Polanski, palme d'or twenty years ago with

The Pianist

, whose no French production company wants to finance the next film.

The filmmaker has found actors despite everything - Fanny Ardant and Mickey Rourke - and a filming location in Gstaad, on land…

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Source: lefigaro

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