Desperate Housewives actress Eva Longoria is under hot water by film distributor Maya Entertainment. In the actresses new movie Without Men she engages in lesbian scenes and Spain’s distributor has pulled those scenes from the movie.
Maya Entertainment sent a notice to a local festival director about the cut scenes and shortly afterwards the festival director cancelled the films showing.
Without Men follows the story of a Latin American village of women who attempt to rebuild their town after all of the towns men are recruited by communist guerrillas. The movie which also stars Christian Slater was released on DVD in June throughout the United States.
Speaking to the Associated Press Xavier Daniel, director of the Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival said:
“We are very angry that a distributor can modify the content of a film. The audience will not understand the film, because all the lesbian scenes are cut out … It is unbelievable in the year 2011.”
At this time Maya Entertainment has not explained their homophobia based reasoning for cutting the scenes.
Do you find it ridiculous as Xavier states that a film company in 2011 is so homophobic that they would actually cut apart a movie because of lesbian scenes?
Eva Longoria’s Lesbian Makeout Censored in Spain
Shellfish paella may be world famous, but when it comes to an ALL-seafood diet, apparently the Spanish censors aren’t so open minded. Eva Longoria’s new movie Without Men (2011), a comedy about a small Mexican village populated entirely by women, was scheduled to play at the Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival this year, but the festival’s organizers are now pulling it from the lineup after the distributor made major cuts.
The problem? Scenes of Sapphic romance featuring Eva and Kate de Castillo slow dancing and making out. The scene is non-nude, so we’re not sure what all the fuss is about, and neither is Xavier Daniel, the BIGLFF director:
“We received a statement from the distributor in Spain saying that when the film premieres it will have the lesbian scenes removed,” he told AFP. “The audience will not understand the film, because all the lesbian scenes are cut out… It is unbelievable in the year 2011.”
Are we sure this is the same country that made Sex and Lucia (2001)?