anti-theatricality (the theatre of war)

"Commenting on Zelensky's propagandistic appearance at Cannes, the legendary French-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most influential European filmakers of the 20th century, wrote:

"Zelensky's intervention at the Cannes festival goes without saying if you look at it from the angle of what is called "staging": a bad actor, a professional comedian, under the eye of other professionals in their own professions. I believe I must have said something along these lines a long time ago. It therefore took the staging of yet another world war and the threat of another catastrophe for us to know that Cannes is a propaganda tool like any other." (via)

(Edging into old modernist coot places foot in mouth, Stockhausen-on-9/11 territory there. Fun fact, I have never managed to watch a Godard all the way through. Not even À bout de souffle)