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- GREENAWAY OFFENDS RSIA WH FILM ABOUT SOVIET DIRECTOR'S GAY LOVE AFFAIR
- RSIAN FILM FUND UPSET OVER GAY ELEMENTS PETER GREENAWAY BPIC ABOUT SOVIET DIRECTOR
- PETER GREENAWAY - A FRENCH CRIC REFERRED TO ME AS A GAY PSIMIST,...
- PUT PROVOKG DIRECTOR PETER GREENAWAY TO FLAND FOR HIS GAY BPIC
GREENAWAY OFFENDS RSIA WH FILM ABOUT SOVIET DIRECTOR'S GAY LOVE AFFAIR
So ’s no surprise that Rsia – s crackdown on ee exprsn and s reprsive stance on homosexualy – has been touchy about Peter Greenaway’s pictn of the figure his new feature Eisenste Guanajuato, which premiered at the Berl Internatnal Film Ftival last Brish tr director displays his typilly transgrsive irreverence pictg the natnal hero’s 10-day love affair wh a male gui Mexi, offendg a Rsia that prevly celebrated him for cimatg palist vulgary his 1989 masterpiece The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her the ftival, Greenaway was cheerful, unapologetic form.
“Put has enuraged this homophobia, ” Greenaway said.
“I have lots of iends St Petersburg and Mosw and they don’t feel [homophobic] at all. “When they retrospectively learned that we’d picted a homosexual relatnship the first one they got sred, ” he said. The director argu that any pictn of a historil figure is a subjective terpretatn, and that Eisenste’s stggl wh his sexualy are well suggts the director’s marriage to his secretary Pera Atasheva was strictly one of nvenience: “There was a new Stal law which crimalised homosexualy, and there is a lot of evince that he was very sceptible, and anx about his sexualy.
RSIAN FILM FUND UPSET OVER GAY ELEMENTS PETER GREENAWAY BPIC ABOUT SOVIET DIRECTOR
”Film historians have often poted out that homosexual imagery is rife Eisenste’s films. Cañedo helps the filmmaker lose his hibns along wh his gay virgy wh the help of some olive oil.
PETER GREENAWAY - A FRENCH CRIC REFERRED TO ME AS A GAY PSIMIST,...
At the begng I was ncerned about beg naked and havg a gay sex scene and showg my penis on-screen bee of my fay and iends, and society—gay thgs are not always well received by people. But the film’s foc on Eisenste’s reported homosexualy has upset the head of Gosfilmofond, acrdg to media reports.
Speakg Tuday on the Echo of Mosw, Borodachev nied earlier reports that he had mand the removal of referenc to homosexualy om the film’s script as a ndn of the fund’s operatn.
PUT PROVOKG DIRECTOR PETER GREENAWAY TO FLAND FOR HIS GAY BPIC
“I do not want to talk about [homosexualy], but this theme jt do not su , ” Borodachev said. Eisenste was married, but a iend was among those who have said that he was homosexually cled. In 2013, Rsia adopted a law prohibg the promotn of homosexualy to mors.
Sce then, a number of films wh homosexual them have n to problems receivg state fundg or distributn licens. The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Greenaway — a rint of Amsterdam for 20 years, where he liv wh his theater-director partner, Saskia, and their two children — about why the world needs to celebrate this wild-haired filmmaker and how the Rsians get a ltle “overexced” when yet another of their cultural ins turns out to be gay.