[rlmorel]

"...It’s a film that is very misunderstood with some audiences, uniquely within the United States. The film speaks for itself. It’s a very personal coming of age film, it’s the director’s story and the film has obviously played very well at Sundance without any of this controversy and played in theatres throughout Europe without any of this controversy...”

If I may translate:

"Prudish and backwards audiences in the United States took issue with it." Forward thinking and open-minded Europeans understood it well and embraced it at Sundance and at theaters throughout Europe, where sexualization and sex with underage children is viewed more tolerantly by progressive and educated Europeans there."

[Oshkalaboomboom]

If you think about it the wife of the French President would have been jailed and branded a sex offender had she been American. I guess it’s not surprising that the French are more “tolerant”

[lastchance]

He doesn’t have to point out the moral superiority of the American people to us. We get it.