Pascal Bruckner gets involved. According to the essayist, by criticizing the award of the César for best achievement to Roman Polanski for J'accuse , the Minister of Culture Franck Riester "has become a minister of censorship".
"We are not in the Soviet Union," added the writer to the press on the sidelines of the first meeting of the Goncourt academy, which he has just joined with the novelist Camille Laurens.
"The current could one day turn against it"
"The Minister of Culture must supervise all artistic professions but does not have to give his opinion (...) I think he wants to go in the direction of the current but the current could one day turn against him", insisted the author of the White Man's Sober . Present at the Cesar ceremony on Friday evening in Paris, Pascal Bruckner, close to Roman Polanski, deemed this event "terribly long and boring".
He was not alone in criticizing the minister's statements that the award given to the director of J'accuse , who was the subject of rape charges, was "a bad signal". "We hope that whatever our choices, the Minister of Culture will not get involved in criticizing them because I do not know what is his level of competence in artistic matters," quipped Françoise Chandernagor, one of the three women members of the Goncourt academy. "I said to myself that if he judges cinema he may want to judge literature and who to give our price to, it is possible," she added.
"She was just angry"
Former member of the Goncourt jury, the novelist Virginie Despentes signed an incisive text in Liberation on Monday to denounce the award given to Roman Polanski and salute the gesture of Adèle Haenel who left the room when the prize was announced.
"I don't prefer to say what I think about this text because of the presence of journalists," commented Françoise Chandernagor while other members of the jury judged the text of their former colleague "rather confused". "She was just angry," tried to temper Tahar Ben Jelloun.
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