Andrew Pulver, a film editor for the UK-based publication “The Guardian,” has finally had enough of the Cannes Film Festival.
The 10 day ego-fest will be celebrating its 71st anniversary this month, but the recent deluge of #MeToo allegations, and with Time’s Up overtaking each awards ceremony with more guilt and vigor than the previous, Pulver has begun to question the merit of a Cannes Film Festival.
In his recent article, “Cannes In Crisis: Has The Festival Learned The Lessons Of Weinstein?” Pulver suggests that Cannes Film Festivals are actually doing more harm to the entertainment industry than good.
He writes, in part: The film festival is now, in effect, a crime scene. Weinstein was one of Cannes’ princes, a showman who used the festival as a personal fiefdom: buying and selling films, holding court to the press and public, and, it would now appear, using the festival as a private playground.
And although Pulver points out that Weinstein “vanished – practically overnight,” similar sentiments formerly held by Weinstein remain. – READ MORE
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