Updated at 10.40am with festival statement… A press screening of Pedro Almodóvar’s Cannes Competition film Bitter Christmas at the Bazin theatre on Tuesday evening was interrupted part way through due to a medical emergency of one of the attendees.
Deadline was alerted to the incident by our critic Stephanie Bunbury that the 6:15PM press screening had been disrupted some 15 minutes into the seance.
During ironically a hospital sequence in the movie, loud yelps were heard from an elderly moviegoer in the Bazin. Per our eyewitness, the person collapsed in their seat, eyes closed. Those sitting nearby surrounded
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