Sparks fly at Venice filmfest over '68 anti-war pic http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iE4umwXTMY21GOGYd4e61DD0I1JA
(AFP) Sep 9, 2009 VENICE, Italy Sparks flew at the Venice film festival Wednesday when Italian director Michele Placido was asked why conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's media group had produced his film on the 1968 anti-war movement. "I don't know who Berlusconi is, and I don't vote for him, I vote for the other side entirely," he said at the start of a news conference on his film "Il Grande Sogno" (The Great Dream), produced by Mediaset. Then, mistakenly thinking his Spanish questioner was American, Placido's voice rose to a shout: "You invade other countries, send people to die and then make films on it to say how good you are" -- in an apparent reference to Grant Heslov's dark comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats," set in Iraq. "Get out of that country," Placido said. Placido's autobiographical film recalls his "conversion" from police officer to anti-war activist in the late 1960s. . --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sixties-L" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sixties-l?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
