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‘The Artist’ Director Michel Hazanavicius Says ‘People Have an Issue Addressing the Genocide Against Jews’
Michel Hazanavicius, the Oscar-winning director of 'The Artist,' has denounced rising antisemitism in France in a new op-ed.
Michel Hazanavicius, the Oscar-winning director of “The Artist” whose animated film “ The Most Precious of Cargoes ” competed at this year’s Cannes and was subject to some backlash due to its depiction of Auschwitz victims, has penned an op-ed denouncing rising antisemitism in France. Hazanavicius, who is the Jewish son of Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe, rhetorically asked in French newspaper Le Monde, “Why do I have the impression that more and more people have an issue with the simple fact of addressing the genocide against Jews?” Scored by Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat, the drama intertwines the fate of a Jewish family and their newborn twins, deported to Auschwitz, with that of a poor and childless woodcutter couple living deep in a Polish forest.
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