Nate Parker’s politically charged drama “American Skin” is set to play at the 45th edition of the Deauville American Film Festival following its world premiere at Venice. “A…
Nate Parker’s politically charged drama “American Skin” is set to play at the 45th edition of the“American Skin,” which tells the story of a Gulf War veteran whose son is killed by a police officer, marks Parker’s first feature film since the news resurfaced that he had once been charged and acquitted of rape. His debut film, “The Birth of a Nation,” won a prize at Sundance in 2016 but flopped at the box office.
The festival’s artistic director, Bruno Barde, said the larger proportion of women-directed movies in Deauville this year is explained primarily by the quality of these films and the fact that female directors submitted 75 films in 2019, compared to 49 in 2018. Although the inclusion of Allen’s and Parker’s films in Deauville has raised eyebrows in the U.S., it has generated no controversy in France, where the approach to and reception of the #MeToo movement has been much laxer.
As in the last few years, studio movies will be absent from Deauville. Barde said the lack of studio movies at the fest reflects the state of a U.S. industry that is increasingly polarized between creatively daring independent films, which value the role of international festivals, and risk-averse studio movies, which don’t.
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