”(Harvey Weinstein) is a bastard. He has been the worst man in the world for 30 years. Not just for sexually harassing girls, but also for destroying independent cinema.”
Serbian director Emir Kusturica has won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or twice, for When father was away on business in 1985 and Underground in 1995.
He has also won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for Arizona Dream (starring Johnny Depp and Faye Dunaway) and the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Black Cat, White Cat. His most recent feature, On the Milky Road, starring Monica Bellucci, and the director himself, premiered in Venice in 2016.
But Kusturica has also caused debate and controversy, including by siding with Russia on its annexation of Crimea and by praising Russian President Vladimir Putin.
At the recent edition of the Küstendorf Film and Music Festival, which Kusturica runs in the mountainous region of Serbia two hundred kilometers southwest of the capital Belgrade,The Hollywood Reporter talked to him about the state of arthouse cinema, Hollywood sexual harassment scandals and (of course) about Putin and Trump.
Interview by Vladimir Kozlov
Source : hollywoodreporter.com