Michael Haneke: #MeToo has led to a witch hunt 'coloured by a hatred of men'

FULL STORY by Gwilym Mumford: The GUARDIAN…..

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Haneke argued that a film such as Nagisa Ôshima’s 1976 erotic drama In the Realm of the Senses, which attracted controversy for including scenes of unsimulated sex, would not be made today “because the funding institutions would not allow this, anticipating obedience to this terror”.

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“Suspected actors are cut out of movies and TV series in order not to lose [audiences]. Where are we living? In the new Middle Ages?” Haneke said, touching on the recent decisions to edit actors accused of sexual misconduct, such as Kevin Spacey and Ed Westwick, out of finished works. Westwick has denied the claims made against him, while Spacey has denied some of the allegations and not responded to others.