Scorsese's dangerous game with history

Shutter Island, the new film by US director Martin Scorsese, made its international debut at the Berlin Film Festival in February. Now the thriller has become a box office hit. Writing in the liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Sera Bernard Henri-Lévy criticises the US director's careless use of Nazi allusions: "The truth is, Nazism is becoming a sort of a new playing field for the amusement of the bad boys of Hollywood, whose moguls ... have decided they are entitled to decree what is real and what is not every other moment.  Better still, it's a self-service, neither more nor less taboo than any other, where those who have chosen to think that ... reality should no longer be anything but another form of fiction, take their pick. Art comes out on top. Not memory. Nor, even less, all that is moral, which needs a new 'French New Wave' to remind us that it is still, and more than ever, the business of cinema."

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