At the start of Saturday night's premiere screening of Abel Ferrara's "Welcome To New York," projected onto a screen in a tent on the Carlton Beach, Gerard Depardieu revealed in a brief on-screen interview why he had agreed to play a character who, for all intents and purposes, is disgraced former Imf chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. "Because I don't like him," said the French star. "I don't trust politicians. I'm an individualist, I'm an anarchist." There was an ample display of Depardieu's anti-dsk ethos in Ferrara's film, not to mention the actor's entire corpulent naked body for a degrading strip-search scene, in a towering performance (and less towering film) that achieves its aim of making you feel thoroughly repulsed by a man who views sexual rapaciousness as one of the entitlements of capitalist power and privilege. Called John Devereaux, Depardieu is off the leash in "Welcome To New York,...
- 5/18/2014
- by Matt Mueller
- Thompson on Hollywood
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