Many of our critically acclaimed films - from Carol to Shaun the Sheep - received European funding,so leaving the EU might see us culturally worse offAt first glance, Carol and Get Blake! conclude not appear to have much in common. One is an Oscar-nominated period drama about sapphic romance set in the lush interiors of upper-middle-course 1950s Manhattan, and the other a French science fiction cartoon about alien squirrels. And yet both might never have been made were it not for EU funding.
But while one can just about imagine surviving without Get Blake,which was the centrepiece of a tabloid row about dreadful Europeans wasting our tough-earned British money on pointless film and TV projects in August, it is doubtful whether many right-minded Brit cineastes would be willing to dispense with Todd Haynes’s treasured drama about a appreciate affair between Cate Blanchett’s opulent housewife and Rooney Mara’s wide-eyed department store ingenue.
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Source: theguardian.com