Catherine Corsini Publishes Open Letter Denying Wrongdoing On Set Of Film ‘Le Retour’ As Cannes Inclusion Divides French Industry
26.04.2023 - 10:09
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French director Catherine Corsini and her producer Elisabeth Perez have published an open letter denying wrongdoing on the set of upcoming Cannes Palme d’Or contender Le Retour.
There have been multiple French media reports over the past two weeks detailing allegations of a lack of safeguarding of minors as well as the mistreatment of crew members and young actors in the lead-up to and during the film’s shoot in Corsica at the end of last year.
For a time, it looked like the allegations would result in the film being denied a promised slot in the Cannes Film Festival’s main Competition, but the title was announced among 13 feature additions to Official Selection earlier this week following an investigation by the event.
“Anonymous and defamatory emails have been sent to the profession and the press, generating a rumor that was very damaging for the film. Thankfully, the biggest festival in the world took the time to carefully check the truth,” read the letter posted on Tuesday evening and signed off by Corsini and Perez under the banner of their Paris-based Chaz Productions.
It remains to be seen whether the open letter will calm the media storm in the lead-up to the film’s world premiere in Cannes, with the local film industry also divided in its response to the reports and the festival’s decision to add it to the Competition line-up.
Le Retour reunites Corsini with Aïssatou Diallo Sagna, a discovery of her last film The Divide, in the role of a woman who travels to Corsica with her wealthy Paris employers to look after their children over the summer.
She is accompanied by her teenage daughters on a trip taking them back to the island they left years previously under tragic circumstances. While the mother struggles
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