The big question about the Olympic Games’s closing ceremony was whether or not it would be enough to eradicate memories of the sodden opening ceremony, which had provoked everything from bad reviews to death threats aimed at executive director Thierry Reboul and artistic director Thomas Jolly, the latter apparently from people upset at a tableau they misinterpreted as a satire of the Last Supper.
Reboul, understandably sounding like a man who was fed up with the whole business and just wished it was over, pre-emptively suggested not: he had revised the script for “the umpteenth time” and promised a “moment of tolerance, sharing and community” but added that, however good it was, it would not “[change] the perception of the opening ceremony”.
