Operating visa feature film Gaspar Noé was suspended by the Administrative Court of Paris. Before him, many works – Pierrot le fou , Mad Max Nymphomaniac – have suffered the wrath of censorship. Short history.
Love Gaspar Noé will indeed be prohibited under 18, announced Monday 3 August, the producer and distributor Vincent Maraval on his Twitter account. In protest, he has posted the following message: “In France, love is now no under 18 years.” The last film by Gaspar Noé was released on July 15 with a ban for under 16.
Current practice throughout the “Thirty Glorious”, this classification has become increasingly rare and is now reserved for pornographic movies or considered with extreme violence. Since 2000 only eleven films have received a ban for under 18, including: Fuck me (2000) Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi, Ken Park (2003) Larry Clark and Edward Lachman, Saw 3 (2006) Darren Lynn Bousman, Saw 3D (2010) by Kevin Greutert, There no sex (2012) and Raphael Siboni Nymphomaniac – Volume 2 (2014) by Lars Von Trier.
The reasons are simple: pornography, violence, sadism … Mad Max George Miller was classified as “X-Violence” in 1979, before being distributed France in 1982, prohibits under 18. A few years earlier, in 1976, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom by Pier Paolo Pasolini suffered a similar fate before being allowed out in a room.
In 1970, the ambiguity of some scenes of Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick justified in the eyes of the Commission a prohibition under 18 years. A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Sergio Leone in 1966 were accused of promoting violence.
the 1960s, these bans minors also responded to the distress of the censors, explains the historian Frédéric Hervé Censorship and cinema in France in the war boom (New World 2015). Dismay at the depiction of sexual acts in The Silence (Ingmar Bergman, 1964) and Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1969), or the crudity of language, as Male Female (Godard, 1966) where Chantal Goya dare pronounce this sentence: “I like that Paul is in love with me. Lui..Pourquoi fuck not? “
At that time, Jean-Luc Godard together of multiple trouble with censorship and multiplies the mockery with regard to the Classification Board. In the trailer for Male Female , the filmmaker turns the phrase “Coming soon on this screen” to “course prohibited under 18 since he speaks of them.” Shoot the Piano (1960), Francois Truffaut also mocks these conventions in the scene where Charles Aznavour back the sheets on the bare chest Michèle Mercier, exclaiming: “In film, c is that and not otherwise! “
The violence and eroticism interfere, but not only. The same goes for political allusions and considered conformist attitudes – all that can then be considered subversive. Thus, as Frédéric Hervé rating, Pierrot le fou (Godard, 1965) are prohibited under 18 for her “intellectual and moral anarchism,” Suzanne Simonin, Religious Diderot (Jacques Rivette, 1967) for “blasphemy” and The Unfaithful Wife (Claude Chabrol, 1970) to stage a “family environment in an unedifying day.” Especially one scene of this movie shows how to clean a crime scene …
The same fate awaits La Bande à Bonnot (1968) with Jacques Brel and Bruno Cremer, evocation of the famous anarchist whose ambition is to “make Bonnot homage due to him.” But Solo (Jean-Pierre Mocky, 1969). The Committee is concerned that this story of a man looking for his younger brother driven by a group of terrorists from May 68 “incites some adolescents in acts of criminality” (cited by about Frédéric Hervé). This prohibition does not prevent the film to attract 660,000 entries.
In most cases, these restrictions were temporary and quickly commuted after cuts nonetheless. In 1990, landings were adjusted: the prohibition to under 13 rose to 12, to the age of 18 to 16 years. Many movies like The Unfaithful Wife , Male Female or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly are now all audiences.
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