French Police May or May Not Be Investigating Charges That Might Not Exist Over Lars von Trier's Controversial Cannes Statements

Now that the six month long ordeal over John Galliano‘s drunken racial slurs has ended, with a French court deciding to slap an immediately suspended sentence on the former top Dior designer and order him to pay up a relatively small fee, the government can now focus its attention on this year’s other Nazi-remarks-based controversy, this one involving director Lars von Trier. Though nowhere near the media-bombarding scandal that Galliano’s very public trial was, there was still plenty of press at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, when the director’s tongue seemed to get away from him, resulting