War films, protests and Russia boycotts: How Ukraine’s plight shaped Cannes 2022
msn.comglitziest film festival is sometimes portrayed as a bubble – and to some extent, that is true. One could easily have spent a week on the Croisette without noticing that the host country has a whole new government, and only the second woman prime minister in its history.
But there has been no escaping the catastrophic war raging at the other end of Europe, roughly 2,000 kilometres to the east of the French Riviera.
The festival opened last week with an emotional appeal by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, who urged filmmakers to take up the mantle of Charlie Chaplin's “The Great Dictator” and “demonstrate that the cinema of our time is not silent”.
Days later, a woman stormed a red carpet premiere, stripping off her clothes to reveal the words “Stop raping us” written across her torso, on top of the blue and yellow colours of the Ukraine flag.
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