Anti-Semitism?


Firstly, I have to say, this is not a very good film. The DSK case and how this man with so much promise destroyed his potential as France's next Socialist President thanks to his perversions, is a fascinating one, but this film spends far too much time, at least the first half hour, focused on an enormously fat GĂ©rard Depardieu simply rutting and grunting over nude and semi-nude prostitutes, thus objectifying women to almost the same extent as DSK and fellow sexual predators.

That said, contrary to DSK's ex-wife and his lawyer, I don't see the anti-Semitism. In fact, the film hardly mentions that DSK or 'Devereux' is Jewish (at one stage he mentions that he's grateful for not being a Christian, but that could simply mean he's an atheist), and although I can see why DSK's ex-wife might take offence in a film that associates her Jewish family with the Nazis, is that necessarily 'anti-Semitism' or simply misrepresentation?

Some, albeit a very tiny number of, Jews did collaborate with the Nazis during the Third Reich, presumably in order to protect themselves from what was to come, so it's not in itself an anti-Semitic narrative device to suggest that such associations occurred. However, I can understand why Ann Sinclair might take offence at the misrepresentation of her family via this 'film a clef'.

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