french director catherine corsini who was supposed to be the seventh female director at the 72nd edition of the cannes film festival has now been subject to review for its slot due to complaints the slot for the movie le retour in the competition is now kept on hold as the numerous inappropriate events related to the movie have gained attentionaccording to report a usbased media house on april 13 the cannes chief thierry fremaux confirmed to the director that she would have a competition slot but as the time of the announcement came the festivals administration board decided to hold off on giving the title a slot in the lineupread alsomischa barton to star in neighbours new seasonhollywood actor mischa barton is all set to appear in the new season of neighboursthe decision came after the news of corsini being accused of harassment of team members and crew members allegedly involved in inappropriate acts against two female actors surfacedfremaux said administration board wished to gather more information about the situation around the film before taking a decision on whether to include the film in its official selection to give a reason behind removing the movie from the festivalas per a report the producer of the movie elisabeth perez defended the scenario by stating the information as malevolent rumours and these allegations should not lead to the life or death of a film nor should they take away its right to be selected for cannesan incident from the sets involved an org called the cchsct whose task is to prevent violence harassment and sexism on shoots the organisation inspected the production of le retour following complaints and alerted the general attorneynational film center cnc mentioned another incident about a scene of a sexual nature featuring the 15yearold female protagonist of the film was added to the script and allegedly filmed without the consent of the commission des enfants du spectacle a governmentbacked organization the cnc said it has decided considering the failure in respecting the social obligations of the production to withdraw its subsidies for the filmcnc also decided to cut over the subsidies but also gave some sort of relief as it never wanted the to crew get robbed of their pay for the work on sets of the filmle retour is a story of kheididja a woman looking after the children of a wealthy family during a summer in corsica the job allows kheididja to return to the island with her own daughters after fleeing it 15 years prior under tragic circumstancesthe movie stamps corsinis followup to the divide which competed at cannes in 2021 and won a cesar award for supporting actor aissatou diallo sagna