CANNES, France (Reuters) - hunting witches or wise decision? It was the question on the lips of moviegoers, critics and executives at the Cannes film festival Thursday after the sudden expulsion of Danish Director Lars Von Trier.
The annual showcase of cinema is that the world of the largest and well known as a paradise for the provocative voices as Von Trier. But clearly, the organizers decided that the Director of 55 years had exceeded the mark when he said joke of the world's press on Wednesday that he was a Nazi who sympathized with Hitler.
And while the festival occurred against Von Trier within 24 hours, revoke his accreditation, reaction was divided over the crowd on the famous Riviera waterfront lined with Palm trees.
I am against the decision. Everyone here is on two hours sleep, and nobody can say something stupid in a press conference. He apologized and that was enough, "said 20 - something filmmaker Christophe Monsourian.
At the press conference bizarre on Wednesday, Von Trier at Cannes to talk about his film "Melancholy", launched in a monologue décousu on his German Jewish heritage making remarks that forced out.
He said jokingly that he was a Nazi, sympathized with Hitler "a little bit," renowned Israel "pain in the ass" and muttered the phrase "the final solution for journalists".
Once the words Von Trier, made headlines in newspapers and websites in the world to the Board of Directors hastily convened a meeting of "tense" in which it was decided to launch him to the terminating a relationship until then happy with the Cannes film festival.
His melancholy film in competition, however, remains.
The new, announced in a statement by email, quickly widespread and has dominated the event from 11 to 22 May that he reached its culmination.
Opinions vary as to whether the festival had done the right thing or not.
NO JOKE ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST
At Cannes, Jason Solomons, President of the London Film Critics Circle, said that he supported the decision and that it was argued that the organizers could go further.
"I think that the film should thus thrown", he told Reuters.
Solomon Islands said there is a tendency to look at art does not the artist, but that in this case the two things are inextricably linked.
He said "You cannot really joke about the Holocaust, you will need to take seriously these matters". "I am not offended on the level of being a Jew, I am offended on the level of semiotics, not Semitic.
Others took the opposite stance, saying that the issue had become exaggerated.
"It is very hypocritical," said Francois Peyroux, student film at the school of the FEMIS in Paris.
"They were wrong in what he said because he was not politically correct, but for me, is not less objectionable than the yacht parties and thrown here money."
Cannes normally thriving on the controversy and scandal, when Von Trier brought his ultra-violent "Antichrist", sexually explicit at the festival there are two years that prompted jeers at the press screening.
"Von Trier is a genius, he has completely upset each convention in cinema and we need filmmakers like him at the Cannes Festival," said Monsourian.
Moments of controversy are a key element for a memorable holiday with great films, celebrities list and parties non-stop in the palm-lined Croisette waterfront.
But this year, which was hailed as a festival vintage where star power has been able to match the quality of the films in competition, Cannes is in danger of being remembered on a hand and one thing only - exit ignominious Von Trier.
(Statement by Mike Collett-white and Nick Vinocur, editing by Paul Casciato)
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