2023-08-15 16:19:00
After Lebanon and Kuwait, it is Algeria’s turn to ban Greta Gerwig’s film. In question: “scenes intended for an adult audience”.
By VD with AFP The distributor announced the deprogramming of the film, released on July 19 in Algeria. © ALLISON DINNER / EPA Published on 08/15/2023 at 4:19 p.m.
Algeria has withdrawn from its cinemas the film “Barbie” for “attacking morality”, after a broadcast of more than two weeks, several media in this Maghreb country have indicated. According to the online news site 24H Algérie, which cites “well-informed sources”, the film has been canceled from all theaters in the country for “attacking morality”.
On Sunday, August 13, theater owners changed the programs by removing Greta Gerwig’s film, without providing reasons. The distributor also announced the deprogramming of the film, released on July 19 in Algeria, without details. “Algeria ended up being won over by the controversy over Barbie because of scenes intended for an adult audience” and allusions to homosexuality, explained the TSA information site, also ensuring that the film had been “discreetly withdrawn from cinemas”.
Several countries have banned it
Nearly 48 hours after its deprogramming, the Algerian Ministry of Culture, which usually announces film bans specifying the reasons, is still silent. Last Thursday, Kuwait banned it for “undermining public morals”. The day before, the Lebanese Ministry of Culture indicated that it had requested its ban, considering that it was “promoting homosexuality”, amid growing anti-LGBT + (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other) rhetoric in one of the most liberal countries in the Middle East.
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Barbie is still not broadcast in Qatar, which however has not made an official announcement on this subject. Almost a month after its release, the film is still leading the North American box office and has surpassed $1 billion at the global box office. Already a cultural phenomenon, the film, which was the subject of an intense marketing campaign, led to a wave of shades of pink in the world: clothes, various accessories, roller skates, etc. The output of Barbie also caused a surge in sales of dolls from the American group Mattel.
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