Lars Von Trier 'accepts' Cannes ban after Nazi comments

[Ken Burch]

Source: BBC News

Danish director Lars Von Trier has accepted his ban from the Cannes Film Festival, following his claims that he sympathised with Adolf Hitler.

Speaking on Thursday, one of the producers of his film Melancholia said he "accepts whatever the festival directors want to do to punish him".

"It's up to the festival to decide what is good for the festival," Meta Foldager told the AFP agency.

In a statement, organisers said the film-maker was now "persona non grata".

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13457328

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Oy Freakin' Vey...

[DonCoquixote]

1. Par for the course

Whatever talent lars may have, he has been a shock jock for years. In the current culture, he will be just one more person making a living my pissing people off.

[arcane1]

2. "claims that he sympathised with Adolf Hitler"

I didn't hear that part. The snippet I watched just had him saying he understood Hitler. Big difference!

[Ken Burch]

4. There's worse in the link.

(full disclosure: I've thought Von Trier was basically a fascist ever since I saw the way he treated Emily Watson's character in BREAKING THE WAVES and heard what he put Bjork through-he treated her so badly that she vowed never to act again.)

[arcane1]

5. I'm still missing the "sympathised" part n/t

[fascisthunter]

3. fucking asshole.... the evil that man did, and he has the balls...

to claim to sympathesize with him. A real sociopathic loser!

[Bluenorthwest]

6. His work tells the same story these words of his tell

I think he's an authoritarian, and I loath his work.