Preceded by a rich film career, but also by a reputation as a conspirator and admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin, filmmaker Oliver Stone ticked all these boxes during a sometimes tense interview led by Jean-François Lépine at Diamant, Wednesday evening.
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Passing through the capital at the invitation of the Quebec City Film Festival (FCVQ), the director of Platoon, Born on July 4, jfk and Natural Born Killers, among other things, did not dodge the questions, even if it meant getting bogged down at times in sometimes pointed subjects, which moved away from the seventh art. A fact also denounced openly by a spectator, who interrupted the discussion by declaring “having paid to hear Mr. Stone talk about his films”. And it was not cheap, with tickets selling between $67 and $96…