Festival boss hints that Danish director’s new serial killer film will join lineup overturning expulsion imposed after ‘unacceptable’ comments in 2011Cannes is set to add the newest film from Lars von Trier to its 2018 lineup,ending a seven-year ban of the controversial director at the film festival.
Von Trier was made persona non grata by Cannes after jokingly declaring himself a Nazi and expressing sympathy for Adolf Hitler during a 2011 press conference for his Palme d’Or-nominated film Melancholia. At the time the Danish director’s comments were described by the Cannes board as “unacceptable, intolerable, or opposite to the ideals of humanity and generosity that preside over the very existence of the festival”.
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Source: guardian.co.uk