Gay-Themed Poster Pulled Near Paris
As we saw at last week’s French Open men’s final, some of the supposedly sophisticated French are still freaked out about things gay. This week’s example: according to Deadline: ‘Alain Guiraudie was named best director in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at last month’s Cannes Film Festival for his roundly-lauded thriller “L’Inconnu Du Lac” (“Stranger By The Lake“). During the festival, the sexually explicit gay-themed tale of summer love and murder was picked up by Strand Releasing for a U.S. release later this year. But on the eve of its release in France, where expressions of sexuality are de rigueur and where gay marriage was recently legalized, the film’s advertising proved too much for some. In the Parisian suburbs of Versailles and Saint-Cloud, a series of promotional posters was pulled at the request of the individual town halls… The mayor’s office in Saint-Cloud said it had been “harassed†by phone calls and emails about the poster since it went up last week.’ Never forget: the French are the original drama queens.
