Cannes quietly cancels Kevin Spacey and pays tribute to him

It will be in a basement and in a hotel, but it will also be in Cannes and at one of the festival's venues. Kevin Spacey will be timidly uncancelled at the year's biggest film event with a tribute prepared for him by the Better World Fund at the Carlton Hotel in the French city. His latest film, The Awakening , will also be shown at the Marché du Film, the festival's major film market—where films are bought and sold for distribution around the world—and which is located in the basement of the Palais du Cinéma. It's not neon lights or confetti, but Spacey wouldn't have given a damn about that much not so long ago.

The actor will receive an award this Tuesday for excellence and the impact he has had on film and the performing arts over decades of "artistic brilliance." It is the latest step in a measure of rehabilitation after he was acquitted in July 2023 by a London jury on up to nine counts of sexual offenses he was accused of committing between 2004 and 2013, when he worked at the Old Vic theater in the British capital. It was one of the most important #metoo-related trials held in England. His defense witnesses included Elton John and his husband David Furnish.

In July 2023, he was acquitted of up to nine counts of sexual offenses he was accused of having committed between 2004 and 2013.

In 2022, another New York jury also found Spacey not responsible for a sexual assault committed against actor Anthony Rapp in 1986. The jury acquitted him after Rapp could not prove that Spacey had touched her private parts without her consent. It was Rapp who initiated the allegations of inappropriate conduct against Spacey in 2017, declaring that the actor had sexually assaulted her when she was only 14 years old. From then on, a cascade of accusations began against the American Beauty actor, leading to his dismissal from the Netflix series House of Cards and the cancellation of his film about Gore Vidal . Furthermore, in the film All the Money in the World , about the Gettys, his role was reinterpreted by Christopher Plummer . In 2017, Spacey was dead. Perhaps now he begins a light rehabilitation.

Despite this tribute to the Margin Call actor, the Cannes Film Festival is being plagued by #metoo cases. In fact, during the opening ceremony, the 18-month prison sentence against Gérard Depardieu for double sexual assault was announced, leading actresses such as Juliette Binoche, president of this year's jury, to declare that "the concept of the 'sacred monster' has always bothered me, because first of all , he's not a monster; he's a man , and he seems to have been desecrated by acts that have been brought to justice."

The festival, for its part, decided to ban actor Theo Navarro-Mussy from the red carpet due to rape accusations from three ex-partners revealed in Télérama magazine, although the case had been dismissed a month earlier due to lack of evidence.

And on Saturday, Sebastián Lelio 's musical film The Wave premiered, about the #metoo protests in Chile in 2018.

It will be in a basement and in a hotel, but it will also be in Cannes and at one of the festival's venues. Kevin Spacey will be timidly uncancelled at the year's biggest film event with a tribute prepared for him by the Better World Fund at the Carlton Hotel in the French city. His latest film, The Awakening , will also be shown at the Marché du Film, the festival's major film market—where films are bought and sold for distribution around the world—and which is located in the basement of the Palais du Cinéma. It's not neon lights or confetti, but Spacey wouldn't have given a damn about that much not so long ago.