Director Chloé Zhao
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08 March 2021 "Nomadland", the film winner of the Golden Lion 2020 and the Golden Globes 2021, disappears from the internet in China, after criticisms of the country of the director, Chloé Zhao, Chinese by birth living in the States, resurfaced online United.
In recent days, the Chinese media had acclaimed the director for her Golden Globe triumph, and promoted the film, scheduled for release on April 23, but on Weibo, the most popular social media in China, the content related to the film has disappeared. despite 87 million views in the past few days.
At the center of the criticism is an interview given by Zhao in 2013 to the magazine "Filmmaker", during which the director describes China as "a place where there are lies everywhere".
Zhao's comments resurfaced from the recent past did not appeal to some Chinese social media users, who accused her of tarnishing China and called for a boycott of the film.
Despite the censorship, there is no confirmation that the film will disappear from theaters, and a poster of the film can still be found on the Douban cinema website, but without a date for release in China.
To show understanding towards the director was the director of the most influential Chinese tabloid, the Global Times, which fiercely defends China from polemics from abroad.
According to Hu Xijin, it is necessary to take into account the contrasts and inconsistencies, as he defines them, and despite Zhao's statements - he minimizes on Weibo - the director "is not the kind of extremist who transforms these thoughts into political positions and puts them in light abroad ".