2023-05-16 14:40:48
«Adèle Haenel certainly did not think that of the festival when she came to present her films there, unless she suffered from cognitive dissonance. replied in Variety Thierry Frémaux. Abaca
In a letter explaining why she had abandoned the 7th art, the actress blames the festival. The artistic director regrets “radical and erroneous remarks”.
A few hours before the launch of the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday evening, its artistic director Thierry Frémaux is working to defuse the first controversies. In his traditional interview To Variety, the programmer insisted on dotting the “i” with Adele Haenel. In a letter explaining the reasons which had pushed her to stop the cinema, the actress of Portrait of the girl on fire presented the festival as a haunt of “rapist bosses”. “Radical and erroneous remarks”estimated Thierry Frémaux.
«Adèle Haenel certainly did not think that of the festival when she came to present her films there, unless she suffered from cognitive dissonance, he retorted. By its impact, Cannes is a platform for debating many social issues, but if Cannes were really a festival of rapists, you journalists wouldn’t be listening to me, or complaining about not finding places at the projections.»
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In his open letter sent to the weekly TeleramaAdèle Haenel put in the same bag “movie pundits and luxury sponsors». «In a context of historical social movement, we are waiting to see if they are counting on the police so that everything goes as usual on the red carpets of the Cannes Film Festival (…) they and them all together during this time lend a hand to save face Depardieuof the Polanskiof the Buttoned. It bothers them that the victims make too much noise, they preferred that we continue to disappear and die in silence. They are ready to do anything to defend their rapist bosses, those who are so rich that they believe themselves to be of a superior species, those who spectacularize this superiority by wallowing in dirty noises, by objectifying women and subordinates“, denounced the 34-year-old artist.
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“I don’t know the image of Johnny Depp in the United States”
In his interview at Variety, Thierry Frémaux returned to another sulfurous male presence on the Croisette: Johnny Depp. Invited to climb the steps to defend the opening film of Maiwenn Jeanne du Barrythe former star of Pirates of the Caribbean has been in turmoil since her divorce from Amber Heard and the suspicions of domestic violence weighing against him. The Cannes programmer dodged, with his usual skill and by responding to the side, the reproaches of feminist activists.
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«I’m the last person in the world to debate matters with [soulevées par le procès en diffamation entre Johnny Depp et Amber Heard]. If there’s anyone in the world that this high-profile case hasn’t interested, it’s me. I don’t know Johnny’s picture Depp in the USA“, assures or pretends to ignore Thierry Frémaux, explaining to have “as the only conduct in life: the freedom to think, to speak, to act within the framework of the law”. “What matters to me is Johnny Depp the actor. If Johnny Depp was banned from filming, we wouldn’t be discussing it here. We saw Maïwenn’s film, it could have been in the competition. the controversy started when we announced that the feature film at Cannes, everyone knew that Johnny Depp had made a film in France. Why Maiwenn chose Johnny Depp ? Only she can answer it.
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