‘Saw III’ not for minors in France
The French culture minister sat through a screening of the horror movie “Saw III” -- and decided it wasn’t for minors.
Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres announced Tuesday that he would prohibit children under 18 from seeing the film, which opens in France this week. He said the movie exhibited “violence and intolerable, incessant sadism.” The scenes explicitly showing “physical and moral torture” justified the decision, he said.
Such decisions are rare in France. The under-18 ban was brought back in 2000 for Virginie Despentes’ sexually explicit “Rape Me,” and it has been applied to only a handful of releases.
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