Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar anticipated that next May’s Cannes Film Festival will be “the loudspeaker against the brutality of wars”, in contrast to the Oscars in March, when “no American or those who came out to receive awards had the courage” to denounce the international situation.
“I’m sure there will be a huge difference between the reaction of those who are awarded or those who go on stage to present films or give an award. I am sure that (in Cannes) it will be totally different from what has happened at the Oscars,” Almodovar said Thursday in a statement in Paris to a group of media, including EFE.
The Spanish filmmaker, whose latest work, ‘Bitter Christmas’, has just been selected to compete in the Palme d’Or at Cannes, recalled that the actor Javier Bardem, also Spanish, was the only one who at last March’s Oscars “got involved” quickly, denouncing wars such as the one in Gaza or the one that had already begun in Iran.
“No other American or those who went out to receive awards really had the courage to talk about the appalling situation in which the world is living right now,” he lamented.
However, Almodóvar predicted that Cannes “will absolutely be a loudspeaker for people who belong to culture, speaking out and highlighting the brutality of the wars we are living through,” reported Agencia EFE.
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