"The Oscar-winning director of a TV mini-series about survivors of the 2015 terrorist attack at the Bataclan in Paris has rejected accusations his decision to film inside the theatre was indecent. Jean-Xavier de Lestrade said the hostages on whose story the eight-part docudrama was based wanted their terrifying ordeal recreated inside the building and to film it elsewhere would have been trickery."
"Arthur Denouveaux, the president of the Life for Paris association that represents many survivors of the attacks, said filming in the theatre had blurred the lines between fiction and reality and upset survivors and bereaved families. Some people find it indecent to reconstruct the scene of the tragedy where they suffered it and where their loved ones died, Denouveaux said."
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade rejected accusations that filming inside the Bataclan was indecent. Hostages whose experiences form the basis of the eight-part docudrama requested the re-creation of their ordeal inside the theatre and opposed filming elsewhere as trickery. Des Vivants uses actors to portray seven survivors trying to rebuild their lives after Islamist gunmen held them hostage and threatened to shoot them. Arthur Denouveaux said filming blurred the lines between fiction and reality and upset survivors and bereaved families. Some people view reconstructing the exact location of deaths as indecent. Seven former hostages meet monthly and call themselves les potages.
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