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 Director Fatih Akin Pulls his film "The Cut" OUT from Cannes Film Festival - Why?
Editorial by Laurie Gordon
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Why has Fatih Akim pulled his buzz buzz film The Cut from the Cannes Film Festival OFFICIAL selection? Was this truly for "personal reasons" as the director has stated? Why on earth?
Cineuropa reports that Akin has pulled "The Cut" from Cannes citing "personal reasons," and that's about all the explanation given. The film, the final chapter in his “Love, Death and the Devil” trilogy, stars Tahar Rahim. But the director did reveal earlier this year that "Tahar doesn’t say a word throughout the film and he is a bit like Charlie Chaplin, but at the same time, he is a typical western character, like Sergio Leone." Other than that, thematically, the movie is said to explore the mankind's inherent evil.
So why would Akim NUL & VOID his successful submission to Cannes?
And I wonder can Cannes forgive him? Kicking his nurturing Cannes mama in the teeth. Unless inner workings will remain as silent as Mary Pickford.
Let's begin HERE: You have a built in audience money can't buy ( or a film director can't afford) an "all ears" world media dog nipping at your heels making a lot of buzz buzz at Cannes.
One guess is Akim is pulling out to voice a political opinion not yet pronounced. Like his Chaplin reference about The Cut (see video below) perhaps Akim's protest is a silent nudge against France's bid to repair relations between the two countries as French MPs on visited the Turkish parliament this past week. Or vice - versa? Hmm maybe not.
Turkish-French relations have been strained since the French Parliament adopted a resolution in 2011 that criminalizes rejection of Armenian allegations pertaining to the "incidents" (Genocide is an incident?but I digress - this is entertainment) of 1915. However, this has not stopped the two countries from making peace not war after this new law has been ratified.
Then again, Akim is of German- Turkish descent so fr now let's move on with theory number two:
Is Akim so unhappy with this Cannes edit unable to live with the thought nor bear the pain that this Cannes cut of The Cut will live on forever be tattoed burned onto the public eyeballs burned onto their brain's screen forever? Not a chance.
Ah the artistic turmoil of it all...
Akim has simply stated that he will debut his film at a major fall film festival. My guess is that it begins with the letter "T" and has a Maple leaf on it's country's red and white flag. Cameron Bailey are you listening? Or..is that Venice?
Its darn GOOD publicity. Whether good bad or ugly Akim's name (see..I typed it again) is circulating, presenting an image of himself as finnicky controversial bad boy director following in the footsteps of oh so many more irritating grown up blessed or cursed with artistic temperments we love to hate to love. Not quite what I call artistic license but rather bad boy getting too much royal treament for his own good. That won't stop him (not typing it again) from a great career already on the fast track.
The vibe is pretty good about "The Cut". Already a Cannes darling, Akim won the screenplay prize in 2007 for “The Edge of Heaven,” and one year later was back to Cannes with his documentary “Polluting Paradise.” So what stopped his train plane or automobile en route to the south of France?
Akin won a screenplay award in Cannes in 2007 for The Edge of Heaven and last year brought documentary Polluting Paradise to the French festival.
Akim plans to submit the new film, which opens in Germany on Oct. 16, for an international fall festival.
Cannes will unveil its 2014 lineup on Thursday. The festival runs May 14-25
The Cut is part of a trilogy that also includes Head-On, featuring Game of Thrones star Sibel Kekilli, and The Edge of Heaven.
Director: Fatih Akin
Writer: Fatih Akin
Producers: Fatih Akin, Karl Baumgartner, Reinhard Brundig, Fabienne Vonier
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Tahar Rahim, George Georgiou, Akin Gazi
It’s when he worked within his working trilogy that Fatih Akin has provided us with his deepest, thematically most daring material to date. With the promise of a Tahar Rahim embodying the spirit of a muted, Sergio Leone character type, there are more than enough reasons to believe that The Cut will make us forget about his messy, 2009 comedy Soul Kitchen.
Gist: Final installment in his Love, Death and the Devil trilogy, will focus on the devil — that is, the evil inherent in mankind.
19.04.2014 | Musivision Films's blog Cat. : FILM
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