Filmmaker Ali Abbasi has played down the threat of legal action over his Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice”, which caused a stir at the Cannes Film Festival this week but may struggle to secure a US theatrical release in the run-up to the November 5 presidential election.
A key component of the Cannes experience, the festival’s press conferences are a prime platform for the type of political statement that is strictly banned on the red carpet – and, sometimes, for filmmakers to put their foots in their mouths (think Lars von Trier’s infamous “I’m a Nazi” remark).
