lundi 21 mai 2012

Politics and activism take center stage at Cannes

One doesn?t usually associate the Cannes Film Festival with politics and activism, but both were in the rainy air on Friday, when news hit the trade publications that Harvey Weinstein had acquired the documentary ?The Oath of Tobruk,? French philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy?s film about the fall of Muammar Qadaffi, as well as ?Code Name Geronimo,? action filmmaker John Stockwell?s dramatic feature about the search for Osama bin Laden. Speculation immediately ensued whether Weinstein would try to get Stockwell?s film into theaters before the November election ? and before Kathryn Bigelow?s movie on the same subject ? in order to bolster President Obama?s re-election effort.

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