Russia controversy around a film by Christophe Honoré

Keywords: movie, russia, France, homosexuality

French director Christophe Honoré judge "fool" the warning received by a popular Russian television for airing his film "Love Songs" which shows "non-traditional" sex in a text sent to AFP Thursday .

 

"After the amazement face senselessness of this kind of news censorship that strikes my film worried about the climate of homophobia state prevailing at this time in Russia," the filmmaker currently in rehearsal in Lyon "Dialogues des Carmelites", its first staging of theater.

According to the U.S. trade journal Hollywood Reporter, the Evrokino chain received a warning from the Rokomnadzor, federal control service information and media for spreading "Love Songs" musical film which tells the story of a ménage à trois overwhelmed by grief.

According to Hollywood Reporter, "this is the first time a Russian chain saw receive a warning for showing relationships between persons of the same sex" since the entry into force in late June in Russia controversial laws punishing acts of "propaganda" to homosexual minor.

By law, the "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relation.