Sunday, May 17, 2009

Don't smoke, Mademoiselle!


This is the news how it appears on the site cyberpresse.ca few days ago: Metrobus, the society that menage the advertising on Paris public transport, has refused to display the poster promoting the film "Coco avant Chanel" (photo: Guillaume Clément, AFP) because it seemed to encourage use of cigarettes.
The same censorship was applied for the poster of the retrospect dedicated to Jacques Tati (it was used the famous image of the film "Mon oncle").
In both cases maybe Metrobus has been too strict in applying the law, also because as commented by Cinémathèque française for "Mon oncle", these kind of images are part the cultural heritage of France.

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