Alt-Weekly Editor's Film is Headed for Cannes
By AAN Staff
april 26, 2007 01:56 pm
Zoo, a film co-written by The Stranger's associate editor Charles Mudede (pictured), has been accepted to the Directors' Fortnight segment of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. The film about bestiality, loosely based on an incident in Washington two years ago,
opened in New York this week and hits L.A. in May. The Village Voice's
Nathan Lee says it "moves the mind to reflect on fundamental questions of culture and psyche: the relation of man to animal, the limits of sexuality, the contours of community." The
New York Times also weighs in on
Zoo, saying it "wraps its sensationalistic core in a seductive mantle, an approach that appeals to viewers already predisposed to art and the Enlightenment,
Sesame Street and all things not Rush Limbaugh."