#Cannes jury president Park Chan-wook says "I don’t think politics and art should be divided."
" I think it’s a strange concept to think that they’re in conflict with each other. Just because a work of art has a political statement, it should not be considered an enemy of art. At the same time, just because a film is not making a political statement, that film should not be ignored. Even if we are to make a brilliant political statement, if it’s not expressed artfully enough, it would just be propaganda. So what I want to say is that art and politics are not concepts that are in conflict with each other, as long as they are artistically expressed, they are valuable."
recurring phenomenon across all the negative reviews of Moby-Dick i've read on goodreads is the insistence that they "get" what melville sought to achieve with the novel. "i understand what this is going for, but..."; "i get that this is impressive, however..."; NO YOU DON'T!
For Immediate Release: KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS.
So we’re all on the same page, this is the definitive — and only — director’s cut of Ken Russell’s masterpiece.