The star-studded 75th Cannes Film Festival has finally kicked off on May 17, 2022 and several new films have already premiered at the event. Celebrities from all over the world are also showing up with their mind-blowing attires and making the festival days shimmering.
Recently, on May 23, director, David Cronenberg’s film ‘Crimes Of The Future’ had premiered at the gala event along with the cast, Vigo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart and Lea Seydoux in attendance. The film has created quite a stir as audiences walked out in the middle of the premiere. This happened due to excessive violence and gore, which were too much to take for some viewers. The majority of walk outs happened within the first five minutes.
The director though had expected this already before the film’s premiere. He previously said, “I said some people in town will walkout and Twitter went crazy and people said ‘we don’t want to see a movie where the director thinks we’ll walkout.’ And I wasn’t saying that everybody will walkout. The audience in Cannes is a very strange audience. It’s not a normal audience.”
David further said, “A lot of people are there just for the prestige or for the red carpet. And they’re not cinephiles. They don’t know my films. So they might be walkouts, whereas a normal audience would have no problem with the movie. So who knows? But certainly a lot of people walked out when we showed ‘Crash’ (1996).”
However, the remaining audiences, who have watched the full film have also gave a six minutes standing ovation. According to audiences, the walk outs happened because of a scene, where a young boy was killed by his own mother and that was very disturbing.
