Cannes declares von Trier "the NAZI" 'persona non grata'

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Cannes declares von Trier "the NAZI" 'persona non grata'

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von Trien no longer welcome to Cannes
- http://www.screendaily.com/home/cannes/ ... 86.article

"I understand Hitler. He did wrong things, absolutely. But I see him sitting in the bunker in the end. I sympathize with him a bit."
"OK, I'm a nazi."


- http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/media ... 11391.html (around 35 min)

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He's being pretty damn funny (if you watch the video), and seemingly trying to make a point relating to his new film, but I guess he should understand people are just too stupid to understand points, humor, and especially self-irony. Still, the Cannes philosophy that "anyone who dares not to condem Hitler's every cell to hell must be banished" is far more worrying than anything von Trier said... What a bunch of idiots... Image

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He should be banned for wanting to put the ugly stick Kirsten Dunst in a hardcore sex movie...

...but yeah, Cannes is overreacting, as often happens when it's about jews and Hitler and such.

Also a bit hypocritical. Wasn't Mongol, a movie that turns Genghis Khan into a sympathic nice guy, while he was responsible for many millions of deaths, one of their favorite movies a few years ago?
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Any time codes for the controversial bits?

I'm not watching a 38m press conference... zzzzzzzzzz
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He is a cock to start with, anything that ignorant fool says is worthless. He should be baned fro making shit films.
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Yeah I can't believe he cut Charlotte Gainsbourg's clitoris off too! :D
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Considering Cannes styles itself as a highly cultured festival for the "intelligentsia" of the film industry, you'd think they'd have the brains to realise by now that you should never take Lars Von Trier seriously, he's a piss-taker of the highest order! :lol:
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Cannes is mainly a marketplace for the industry. One would assume that von Trier is well known to the point where he can make business deals without having to go there. I don't imagine that any negative impact to his career will likely be minimal.
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He's get a kick out of it and this is a good place to get publicity for it.
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