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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGay Film's Poster Freaks Out Parisian Suburbs
French homophobes, thee of the shirtless, homoerotic protests and flamboyant marches, are so perturbed by the mere idea of men making love that they've complained about an illustrated poster for the critically acclaimed film LInconnu Du Lac ("Stranger by the Lake" .
Celebrated at Cannes alongside Palme d'Or-winning Blue is the Warmest Color and picked up for U.S. distribution by Strand Releasing, the movie, directed by Alain Guiraudie, follows Franck (Pierre de Ladonchamps) as he meets and falls in love with a dangerous man named Michel (Christophe Paou) at a popular gay cruising spot.
As far as gay-themed flicks go, LInconnu Du Lac, which won Guiraudie a best director award at Cannes's Un Certain Regard sidebar festival, is pretty tame, and the posters are even more tame. Yet so many French people complained about the poster's placement in the suburban towns of Versailles and Saint-Cloud that city officials ended up removing them.
Ad agency JC Decaux wasn't consulted but say that they understand critic's concern. "[The poster] could shock people who find themselves disarmed by posters in the street that address sexuality," they said, according to Nikki Finke at Deadline. But French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti described the poster's removal as "an act of censorship." The images, she says, "do not present risks to public order that could justify."
http://www.out.com/entertainment/movies/2013/06/12/gay-films-poster-freaks-out-parisian-suburbs
With recent events in France & now this, I guess we can throw out the window The French Philosophy On Love And Sex.
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Gay Film's Poster Freaks Out Parisian Suburbs (Original Post)
William769
Jun 2013
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)1. Mon Dieu! Sacre Homo! Quelle Horror! Nt
William769
(55,147 posts)2. Shouldn't that be
Horreur! Since you made me look it up!
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)3. I always thought that
the French were more live & let live when it came to love and sex. Boy, was I wrong.
William769
(55,147 posts)4. Join the club!