French Culture Wars Erupt Over Municipal Cinema As Right-Wing Mayor Strips It Of Name Commemorating Anti-Colonial Director
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Elne, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, justified his decision to debaptize the city's René-Vautier cinema by his desire to "do not politicize culture." "Yes, culture is a political choice," he replied on Friday about ten organizations of film professionals.
French Culture Wars Erupt Over Municipal Cinema As Right-Wing Mayor Strips It Of Name Commemorating Anti-Colonial Director
France’s growing culture wars have its hit indie exhibition circuit after a right-wing mayor in the small town of Elne in southwest France rebaptized the municipal cinema theater, previously named after late radical anti-colonial director René Vautier. Elne Mayor Steve Fortel said he was renaming the theater to “La Bobine Illibérienne” for the sake of […]
René Vautier, a committed director who lived in Cancale, has been at the heart of a controversy since a far-right municipality decided to remove his name from a cinema.
A hundred cinemas throughout France symbolically took the name of the filmmaker committed against the Algerian war on 2 October, after the decision of a far right mayor of the Pyrénées-Orientales to debaptize the local cinema.
In response to the decapitating of Elne's cinema by the far-right municipality, 14 organizations in the sector – including AFCAE, SCARE, GNCR, ACID, DIRE and SDI – invite to support the local petition and symbolically carry the name of René Vautier, a committed director, particularly known for having [...]
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