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06.03.2024 - 15:35 / deadline.com
Atom Egoyan has revealed that he was so traumatized by the negative reception to his Ryan Reynolds-starring thriller The Captive at the Cannes Film Festival that he will never return again with a film.
The pedophilia thriller, starring Reynolds as a man dealing with the disappearance of his nine-year-old daughter, was widely panned by the Cannes critics corps when it world premiered in competition in 2014.
“It was actually the worst reviewed film that I ever did. We should never have taken it to Cannes,” the Canadian-Armenian director told a masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra meeting in Qatar on Wednesday.
“It got this really crazy reception. It was in competition on the Friday night. I haven’t been to Cannes since because I just don’t ever want to come back to what we had that night. The last couple of films, we showed in Venice or Berlin.”
Egoyan said he was proud of the film, nonetheless, suggesting it had gained fresh resonance with the later revelations about U.S. financier and sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
“In terms of this incredible crazy cabal that we found out about his life after this, it makes more sense now,” he said.
“It’s an amazing performance from Ryan Reynolds, not what you’d expect him to do and the fact that he came back to Canada to be in this low budget films when he was at the height of his career.”
Egoyan said his move into working with A-listers after his early years of working with a tight band of family and friends, including his wife Arsinée Khanjian was a natural progression.
“As the budgets got higher, I needed to have that talent in order to get the higher budgets,” he said. “If I had stayed with super low budgets, I probably could have kept making films with the family
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