CANNES, France: The most political Cannes film festival in years opens Tuesday with female stars vowing to protest on the red carpet, two top directors barred from attending and bans hanging over other movies. Long before Weinstein had been accused of attacking four women at the festival, Cannes had been under fire for a "problem with women". While admitting that Cannes "will never be the same again" after the Weinstein scandal, Fremaux said he was against quotas. But Fremaux's surprise decision to lift the festival's seven-year ban on Danish director Lars von Trier has stoked feminist ire. Von Trier sparked outrage during a 2011 Cannes press conference by saying that he was a Nazi who understood Hitler and sympathised "with him a little bit".

Source: Bangkok Post May 08, 2018 01:30 UTC