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Cannes Mayor Makes Stasi Allusions As He Wades Into Media Coverage Of #MeToo Rumors
Cannes Mayor Makes Stasi Comparisons As He Wades Into Media Coverage Of #MeToo Rumors
Cannes mayor David Lisnard has published a blistering critique of media coverage of#MeToo in France, suggesting that investigations into cinema figures accused of sexual harassment were not dissimilar to those of East Germany’s secret police into political dissidents. “The simple fact that a rumor spread on the web can trigger crisis meetings and cause even the Presidency of the Cannes Film Festival to react publicly testifies to the legitimacy now granted to processes which three or four years ago would have seemed delusional,” it continued. The piece alluded to Henri-Georges Clouzot’s controversial 1943 film The Crow, shot under the Vichy regime and exploring themes of mob persecution, as well as Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-winning drama The Lives of Others, about officer in East Germany’s secret police, or Stasi.
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