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Abdellatif Kechiche was already having a bad day when he walked into his press conference at Cannes.
(And remember, this is a festival that showedGottilast year.)
I am going away.
By that point, some of his cast had already reportedly left.
The press conference on Friday didnt make things any better.
My mind is at rest in terms of the law.
He also deemed the question stupid and misplaced.
The director claimed that the walkouts didnt bother him.
I tried to do something different, and not everyone is open to that, he said.
Not everyone is open to the way I look at others.
I wanted to try a cinematographic experience that would be free as possible.
Were pulled out of the film.
One critic friend described the picture as a self-immolation, and I think he might have been too kind.
And while the cunnilingus scene outraged many in the audience, it at least shows somethinghappening.
I wanted to film the magic of the body, the metaphysical dimension of the body, Kechiche says.
But he hasnt really done any such thing.
What theyre doing onscreen doesnt feel like freedom, or youth, or pleasure; it looks likework.
But whos really to blame for that?
