
Children over the age of 12 will be allowed watch Fifty Shades of Grey in France. Image by Frederic Bisson / CC BY 2.0
Children as young as 12 can see Fifty Shades of Grey in the cinema in France after the country’s film board decided against giving it an adult certificate.
France’s classification president, Jean-Francois Mary, deemed that the movie, starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, “isn’t a film that … can shock a lot of people”.
Mary considers the film, that contains scenes of nudity and sadomasochism between an entrepreneur and a virginal student, “a romance, you could even say schmaltzy”.
The film, based on the best-selling novel by EL James, has been rated R in the US for its “graphic nudity” and “unusual behaviour”. Britain has granted it an 18 certificate and the film is banned on screens in Malaysia where it is deemed “too sadistic”.
(Press Association)
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