{"id":653133,"date":"2026-05-19T21:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/653133\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:35:13","slug":"cannes-pedro-almodovars-bitter-christmas-screening-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/653133\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes: Pedro Almod\u00f3var&#8217;s\u00a0&#8216;Bitter Christmas&#8217; Screening Evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tUPDATED with festival statement: A press screening of Pedro Almod\u00f3var\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cannes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cannes\" data-tag=\"cannes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cannes<\/a> Competition film <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bitter-christmas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bitter-christmas\" data-tag=\"bitter-christmas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bitter Christmas<\/a> at the Bazin Theatre on Tuesday evening was interrupted part-way through due to a medical emergency involving one of the attendees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline was alerted to the incident by our critic Stephanie Bunbury that the 6:15 p.m. press screening had been disrupted about 15 minutes into the start of the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPer our eyewitness, during, ironically, a hospital sequence in the movie, loud yelps were heard from an elderly moviegoer in the Bazin; the person had collapsed in their seat, eyes closed. Those sitting nearby surrounded him as the feature continued to run. Soon after, the Bazin ushers ordered the audience to leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe festival confirmed the incident in a statement and said the victim was conscious when being evacuated from the theater and was now being cared for in hospital. It added that the screening resumed from the beginning of the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cA person suffered a medical emergency on Tuesday evening during the press screening of\u00a0Bitter Christmas,\u00a0in the Bazin theatre\u201d said the festival. \u201cThe screening was immediately interrupted, and the theatre evacuated to allow emergency services to assist them. The person was conscious and responsive before being transported to the hospital for further medical care. Once the intervention was completed, the screening resumed from the beginning of the film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Bazin cinema is situated inside the Palais des Festivals and principally hosts press screenings for the films in the main competition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThis evening\u2019s screening for Bitter Christmas was timed to the world premiere of the pic in the Grand Theatre Lumi\u00e8re, where Almod\u00f3var received a standing ovation upon entrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATED with festival statement: A press screening of Pedro Almod\u00f3var\u2019s Cannes Competition film Bitter Christmas at the Bazin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[179427,18451,252484,32176,88],"class_list":["post-653133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bitter-christmas","tag-cannes","tag-cannes-2026","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}