Mad Max, feminist?
In the days leading up to the Thursday Cannes premiere (and subsequent worldwide release) of George Miller‘s rebooted action franchise, “Mad Max: Fury Road,” much has been made of how the new installment set in Miller’s futuristic, dystopian world is “feminist propaganda,” according to online murmurs that one assumes must be at least partly tongue-in-cheek.
Director George Miller and his stars Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron tackled the subject at their Cannes press conference on Thursday, a few minutes after a raucously-received early morning screening of the film in the Grand Theatre Lumiere.
At that screening, the audience broke into applause at the end of a couple of action sequences, and greeted the film warmly.