New Wakamatsu Censorship

[Mathieu Capel]

For those of you who can read french, here are three articles from 3
major newspapers (hope my links will work).
 As you shall see, right wing's newspaper Le Figaro talks very
slightly about it, when the two others (liberation, left wing, le
monde, traditionally left wing but that's not that simple) seems to be
a little bit more prolific. Please note that the Liberation page
contains an interview from KW.

http://www.liberation.fr/culture/cinema/282183.FR.php

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3476,36-962980@51-963069,0.html

http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/20071003.FIG000000179_un_film_japonais_de_interdit_aux_moins_de_dix_huit_ans.html

I assume that KineJapan is not the right place for politics, but this
case does fit with the global moral tendancies that has been
reinforceing these last years, and the new french president and his
staff won't do anything good for it.

Anyway, Wakamatsu's film was not rated X, i. e., was not considered as
pornographic : the "not before 18" censorship is that case is very
rare (few weeks ago, horror movie Saw III got the same fate).

Let's remember as well that Adachi Masao, in a short video introducing
his last film in Frankfurt Nippon Connection last april, told that
France was responsible for the fact he could not get any passport to
come to Europe. No link with the Wakamatsu case, censors this time
don't even know who Adachi is. But...

We're going back to the best years of the 70's (at least) right here
in France, and I shall say that it's not that exciting....

Mathieu Capel
Paris