GAYLES.TV.- You read the news of the censorship of the movie "Weekend" in Italy and you need to look at the calendar to see if you've been wrong in the century and it turns out that we are not in the 21st century but in the thirteenth. And it is that what is happening in the country that calls itself "the homeland of art" is simply scandalous.
Until recently, every parish in Italy owned a movie theater in which it screened whatever seemed most appropriate. At present this is no longer the case, but a clause is maintained that requires many of the lay distributors by contract to abide by the decisions and "suggestions" of the Episcopal Conference. That way those films that do not meet the criteria of moral that marks the Church end up by not arriving at the p
Rojection With the clergy we have met.
This is the case neither more nor less than "The Danish girl" or "Spotlight", winner of the Oscar for best film and narrating the investigation by a group of journalists from "Boston Globe" of sexual abuse committed by members of the clergy with children. The Church's rating was "complex film" and was not distributed.
The most recent case is the "Weekend" of Andrew Haigh that was released without problems makes 5 years ago and that, taking advantage of the pull of the last film of Haigh "45 years", had led to the production company Theodora Films to be rescheduled and distributed in 1.100 Italian cinemas. But it turns out that can only be seen in 10 because the Episcopal Conference has called it "Problematic, indecent, not recommended, useless, scabrous and procacious". And all, why? Because it tells the story of two men who after meeting one night in a bar spend the weekend together, an experience that will mark their lives forever. The Bishops' Commission has recognized that the "B" classification that they have given to "Weekend" is due to the homosexual theme and the use of drugs by the protagonists.
The film has obtained since its premiere the recognition of several film festivals in which it has been awarded, but it is not something that seems to impress in the least the bishops. The question would be: How is it possible that the Church continues to carry such weight in the Italian film industry? Is that censorship valid in the 21st century?
Can the leaders of a creed, with all respect for their believers and practitioners, condition the culture of an entire country? It does not seem that the answers to these questions are simple, but perhaps what is most surprising is that Hollywood with all its power and the Italian distributors, cross their arms before a situation that generates, surely, significant losses.
While the Italians see diminished the most basic right in terms of freedom of expression, which is the free access to any kind of cultural property.
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