France is usually viewed around these here parts as a progressive or even somewhat scandalous society — you know, nude beaches, topless dancers, their President openly having affairs. But for all its worldliness, there appears to be at least one person just too damn sexy for even France to handle: Best Actor nominee Jean Dujardin.
Right out of the strange but true file comes this news from Collider: Posters for Dujardin's latest film, "Les Infidèles," have been deemed so racy by the French government that they have ordered the studio to take them down immediately lest the republic itself fall into hedonistic chaos.
Of course, it's kind of fitting in a way that a mere poster of Dujardin would cause such an uproar; after all, he's already proven with "The Artist" that he can move an audience to both laughter and tears without so much as uttering a sound. Still, considering...
Right out of the strange but true file comes this news from Collider: Posters for Dujardin's latest film, "Les Infidèles," have been deemed so racy by the French government that they have ordered the studio to take them down immediately lest the republic itself fall into hedonistic chaos.
Of course, it's kind of fitting in a way that a mere poster of Dujardin would cause such an uproar; after all, he's already proven with "The Artist" that he can move an audience to both laughter and tears without so much as uttering a sound. Still, considering...
- 2/3/2012
- by Scott Harris
- NextMovie
A sudden breakout star in America for a classic homage to old Hollywood, Jean Dujardin is under fire in his home country for a movie campaign that is anything but traditional.
"The Artist" star appears in a series of posters for French film "Les Infideles," which is made up of shorts about male infidelity. A number of the posters, which appear as billboards and in magazines, are sexually suggestive, including one in which Dujardin is holding up the legs of a woman, and another where it appears co-star Gilles Lellouche is receiving oral sex. There are also posters that show Dujardin and Lellouche bare-chested, watching scantily clad women pass by.
Already, complaints have rolled in, and The Hollywood Reporter relays that the magazine Studio Cine Live has announced that the ads will be pulled. French news site The Local reports that Stéphane Martin, of the country's professional ad regulation board,...
"The Artist" star appears in a series of posters for French film "Les Infideles," which is made up of shorts about male infidelity. A number of the posters, which appear as billboards and in magazines, are sexually suggestive, including one in which Dujardin is holding up the legs of a woman, and another where it appears co-star Gilles Lellouche is receiving oral sex. There are also posters that show Dujardin and Lellouche bare-chested, watching scantily clad women pass by.
Already, complaints have rolled in, and The Hollywood Reporter relays that the magazine Studio Cine Live has announced that the ads will be pulled. French news site The Local reports that Stéphane Martin, of the country's professional ad regulation board,...
- 2/2/2012
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
A sudden breakout star in America for a classic homage to old Hollywood, Jean Dujardin is under fire in his home country for a movie campaign that is anything but traditional. "The Artist" star appears in a series of posters for French film "Les Infideles," which is made up of shorts about male infidelity. A number of the posters, which appear as billboards and in magazines, are sexually suggestive, including one in which Dujardin is holding up the legs of a woman, and another where it appears co-star Gilles Lellouche is receiving oral sex. There are also posters that show Dujardin and Lellouche bare-chested, watching scantily clad women pass by. Already, complaints have rolled in, and The Hollywood Reporter relays that the magazine Studio Cine Live has announced that the ads will be pulled. French news site The Local reports that Stéphane Martin, of the country's professional ad regulation board,...
- 2/2/2012
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Moviefone
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