To the chagrin of #MeToo activists and 23,000 petition signers, Berlin International Film Festival director Dieter Kosslick dismissed a request to lay down black carpet for guests attending Thursday’s opening-night premiere of “Isle of Dogs,” the latest Wes Anderson film.
Deadline reports that Kosslick — who will step down when his contract ends in May 2019 — said he wants to “delve deeper into the #MeToo discourse, deeper than our carpet allows,” and thus “laying out a black carpet at the Berlinale is not the path we have chosen.”The Change.org plea to change the carpet color from red to black was drafted by German actress Claudia Eisinger.
“We fully understand the motivation behind Ms.
Eisinger’s petition,” Kosslick said.
“But for the festival, we made a conscious decision not to engage in symbolic politics.”In addition, Kosslick responded to a suggestion that the film’s star-studded cast plans to wear black,
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