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April 25, 2005

Boredom, not whoredom? Variety protests

In Monday's Variety, the not-precisely-young Derek Elley weighs in on the 2005 Cannes slate: "Do Palme d'Or competitors Michael Haneke, Jim Jarmusch, David Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan still represent the cutting edge of artistic achievement, as they did a decade or more ago? An affirmative answer is inevitably clouded by the reality that, outside a small audience constituency in France, their following Stateside and elsewhere is largely driven by middle-aged critical cliques rather than broader arthouse auds."

Posted by at April 25, 2005 09:45 AM

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