The French court yesterday revoked the authorization for distribution to the movie “Blue Is The Warmest Colour”, the Tunisian-born French director Abdellatif Kechiche, which opened in 2013 after winning the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. The film, which tells the love story between two girls (played by actresses Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos) and includes graphic sequences of lesbian sex, then came to the halls prohibited to minors of 12 years.
The Administrative Tribunal of Paris just withdraw that rating to the film, considering that the Ministry of Culture then made “an error of judgment”. The court requires the owner, Fleur Pellerin, granting him a more appropriate classification regarding the numerous “sex sequences between two young women presented realistically,” which considers likely to “offend the sensibilities of young people”.
This judgment comes after a complaint filed in 2014 by the Promouvoir association, ultra-Catholic and next profile some circles of the French extreme right, which estimated that “Blue Is The Warmest Colour” should not be viewed by minors 18 years. The French Ministry of Culture announced yesterday that it will appeal against the court decision to the State Council, the final court of administrative jurisdiction in France.
Moment, is aimed Promouvoir another goal in defending their values. The organization was founded in 1996 by attorney André Bonnet, who played until the last decade by the far-right politician Bruno Mégret. The father of eight children and fervent supporter of the Latin Mass had already taken legal action to prevent minors from watching movies like “Saw 3D”, “Nymphomaniac” or “Love”, the new of francoargentino Director Gaspar Noé, which was reclassified last summer as prohibited under 18 when it was in theaters. The effects of the ban are not symbolic, as they involve the removal of certain film and lowering the cost of the film ahead of its broadcast on television.
Bonnet different directors states that “unscrupulous” intended “It reintroduce pornography circuits for the general public” as stated in August to Allociné page. “Often, this film has the avowed objective to participate in the destruction of social and family structures on behalf of a libertarianism without limit,” said the lawyer. “We have the impression that [Bonnet] has more influence than the Minister of Culture or the CNC [National Film Centre]. Is the man who decides the classification of films in France, “then said the producer and distributor of” Love “, Vincent Maraval. Gaspar Noé, meanwhile, feared that the actions of Promouvoir end causing “self-censorship” of French creators and compared his “absolute anachronism” with “Islamic state”.
Founded in 1996, consisting for about 400 members, Promouvoir struggle for “the promotion of Judeo-Christian values” and often face the cinematic representation of homosexuality, which in 2001 considered Bonnet “unnatural” and “linked to pedophilia, according to a statistical correlation” . In 2013, the lawyer participated in a rally against gay marriage in France, in which he compared the text legalizing it with “the rise of Nazism and Marxism-Leninism.” His first major battle was won, in 2000, against the film “Fuck me!” The writer (and occasional director) Virginie Despentes. Justice forced to withdraw the film from theaters just two days after its release. The French government decided to establish the classification “prohibited under 18″ as a result of that judgment.
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