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With the memory of the massacre still raw, actor Caleb Landry Jones, 31, said it was very evident that people were going to be angry . Some people probably pegged the film to be a certain kind of movie, he said. But it is a very sensitive piece and very respectfully made.
Sensitive topic: With the memory of the massacre still raw, Caleb, 31, said it was very evident that people were going to be angry
Being Texan helped with his role: The film is in many ways about the Australian male. I found a lot of similarities with Texas. So I knew what that was.
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CANNES: The director of a controversial movie about the man who carried out Australia s worst mass shooting on Friday defended his movie and warned that the lessons of the Port Arthur massacre are being forgotten.
Martin Bryant killed 35 people and wounded 23 others in a rampage at a tourist spot in Tasmania in 1996 that so scarred the country that its guns laws were rewritten within days. Nitram Bryant´s first name backwards is one of the most hotly-debated films in the running for the top prize at the Cannes film festival.
The gunman is played by American actor Caleb Landry Jones, who looks shockingly like the killer.
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Director Justin Kurzel, cast member Caleb Landry Jones, and producer Nick Batzias pose during the screening of the film ‘Nitram’ in Cannes July 16, 2021. Reuters pic
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CANNES, July 17 The director of a controversial movie about the man who carried out Australia’s worst mass shooting yesterday defended his movie and warned that the lessons of the Port Arthur massacre are being forgotten.
Martin Bryant killed 35 people and wounded 23 others in a rampage at a tourist spot in Tasmania in 1996 that so scarred the country that its guns laws were rewritten within days.
Several things happened when the lights went up after the premiere of
Nitram, the first Australian film to be chosen for the Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious competition in a decade. The audience stood to give the film a seven-minute ovation. Caleb Landry Jones, who plays the mass killer at the centre of the film, was in tears. And then Spike Lee, head of the Cannes competition jury, came over to give him a congratulatory hug. Completely against COVID rules, of course, but Spike Lee knows what he likes.
Then the first reviews, embargoed until the screening finished, came online. “A hypnotically disquieting film,” concluded