Le scandale

Have the Oscar chances of The Artist been scuppered by a Norbit style exercise in bad taste, or an orchestrated campaign of negative publicity?  We only ask because soon after Kim Novak’s bizarrely distasteful comments about the use of some Bernard Herrmann music in the score, comes news of star Jean Dujardin’s next film.

Les Infideles translates as The Players, and is a satirical take on men and their sexual mores. But the graphic nature of the poster image – since censured by the French advertising standards authority – has caused some French commentators to wonder if this has done for any chance of The Artist sweeping all before it on February 26^th.  Surely not, the Americans love the French in all their Gallic variety, don’t they?