"Von Trier was made persona non grata by Cannes after jokingly declaring himself a Nazi and expressing sympathy for Adolf Hitler during a 2011 press conference for his Palme d'Or-nominated film Melancholia. ... However, speaking to French radio station Europe 1, festival director Thierry Frémaux suggested that negotiations to lift Von Trier's outcast status were […]
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM on April 18, 2018