The Blasphemer's Banquet

Name: The Blasphemer's Banquet
Released: 1989
Rating: 71.09
Cast: Brian Cox, David Horovitch, Edward Petherbridge, Yves Pignot, Tony Harrison

1989

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The Blasphemers' Banquet is a passionate defense of Salman Rushdie's right to freedom of speech, even it if involves blasphemy. This defense unfolds through the deceptively simple structural conceit of a restaurant meal in Bradford (the town where a copy of The Satanic Verses was burnt in public) to which blasphemers past and present are invited. None of course turns up, most because they are already dead, Rushdie because by then he was in hiding for his life. (imdb)

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Rated 29 Jun 2021

A year after THE SATANIC VERSES (and THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST), Harrison turns his poetic guns on the representatives of censorship and religious fanaticism. Events to follow: the fall of the Wall a few months later, the use of Saudi Arabia as a base for the infidels in 1991, then 9/11, Bali, 7/7, Charlie Hebdo, November 2015, etc. The upshot: if screened today, objections would surely come from beyond just the Archbishop of Canterbury; one doubts the resolve of the BBC to face them down.

Rated 29 Jun 2021

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