Resumen de France: : Report submitted to Minister for Culture advocates reforming film classification
On 29 February, Jean-François Mary, Chairman of the Film Classification Board, submitted a report to the new Minister for Culture, Audrey Azoulay, on the classification of cinematographic works with reference to minors between the ages of 16 and 18 years. The report had been commissioned in September 2015, following the controversy over the courts’ suspension of the classification licence for films including scenes of non-simulated sex, such as ‘Love’ and ‘La Vie d’Adèle’ (see IRIS 2015‑8/15, IRIS 2015-10/13 and IRIS 2016-1/10). More recently, the suspension by the administrative court in Paris of the classification licence that the Minister had issued for the film ‘Salafistes’ because of the “extreme violence” of certain passages, which banned the showing of the film to under-18s, confirmed the need to deal with the subject (see IRIS 2016-4/xxx).
