Mektoub My Love Intermezzo had won the top hand to the palm of the scandal at the Cannes film Festival this year. Six years after The Life of Adèle, the French director Abdellatif Kechiche had stirred the Croisette with his 7th feature film. Experience 3: 28 a.m. radical to overdose, of which three quarters takes place in a nightclub, with the highlight being a scene of sex very raw. The controversy surrounding the film has added a polemic about the conditions of the shoot, the climate of tension and pressures that prevailed there.

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Two months later, Sara Forestier evokes the scandal in an interview with Release. The actress and director of 32 years takes without barguiner the party by Abdellatif Kechiche. “I think it’s a very puritan the charge”, she said before to be ironical: “How should we shoot asses? Diagonal?” The about is cash and without ambiguity, but this is not surprising on the part of Sara Forestier. The young woman was propelled to the front of the stage in 2004 for his role in Dodge, of the same Abdellatif Kechiche. She had received for her services the Cesar for most promising female.

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Presented in Cannes during the last festival, Mektoub My Love Intermezzo had very limited success with the criticism that was fun to count the number of plans on the buttocks of the young actresses (178 according to the latest count) during this very long film of 3: 28 a.m.. And a large part of the public had criticized the filmmaker to shoot scenes very raw with the summit 13 minutes of cunnilingus. The scandal artistic is doubled to concerns about the conditions of realization of the film. Midi Free has published the testimony of a participant who accuses Abdellatif Kechiche to have pushed his cast to have sexual relations, “non-simulated”.

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