Atom Egoyan Reveals ‘The Captive’ Cannes Trauma; TV Regrets & Plans For Literary Adaptation
deadline.comAtom Egoyan has revealed that he was so traumatized by the negative reception to his Ryan Reynolds-starring thriller The Captive at the Cannes Film Festival that he will never return again with a film.
The pedophilia thriller, starring Reynolds as a man dealing with the disappearance of his nine-year-old daughter, was widely panned by the Cannes critics corps when it world premiered in competition in 2014. “It was actually the worst reviewed film that I ever did.
We should never have taken it to Cannes,” the Canadian-Armenian director told a masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra meeting in Qatar on Wednesday. “It got this really crazy reception.
It was in competition on the Friday night. I haven’t been to Cannes since because I just don’t ever want to come back to what we had that night.
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