The open letter further addressed the facts around the intimate scene.
Even if this was done in agreement with them, we should have declared it, it read.
But lets stop the fantasies.
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The adolescents were both dressed, and the scene filmed their faces.
There was no touching or inappropriate contact between the two, as has been suggested in the press.
Cinema is the art of suggestion.
The young people understood that.
The scene at the heart of the media storm did not make the final cut.
The CCHSCT could see it had been dealt with correctly.
As far as Im concerned, my choice is made: #BoycottCannes, he said.
This is obviously a devastating signal sent to victims of gender-based and sexual violence, it said.
It also called for better monitoring of conditions on set by government labor agencies.
