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The French film industry is bracing itself for further #MeToo revelations about multiple male actors, directors and producers. The rumour mill is exploding, and a dark shadow could very well be cast over this year’s Cannes Film Festival opening. The starts next week, on Tuesday (14 May), with the opening film from French absurdist Quentin Dupieux.
However, it’s already off to a rocky start, with a French labour group representing freelance workers at film festivals . As if that wasn’t enough of a headache for the Croisette, speculation is mounting in the French media over rumours that a bombshell #MeToo exposé will drop on the day of the opening. Indeed, there are rumours of a mysterious list of 10 actors / directors / producers who are set to be accused of #MeToo allegations during the festival.
Set to be published by Mediapart, this report is already being described as “an earthquake.” How will Cannes react to this mighty quake? French outlet Le Figaro is reporting, an an article titled ’#MeToo: before the Cannes film festival, the film industry is in a cold sweat’, that Cannes president Iris Knobloch (pictured above) has already hired an agency to prepare for “crisis communication”. The outlet has claimed that top talent “are losing sleep over it” and that “entire artistic teams are trembling” in fear their films will be overshadowed by such allegations.
Knobloch told Le Figaro she and her team were maintaining “reinforced vigilance”. The fe.
