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"Okja", starring Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal, is one of
the hottest movies at this year's festival but divisive because
U.S. video-on-demand company Netflix has refused to screen it in
French cinemas.
The film halted five minutes in after what the festival called
"a technical incident".
Audience member Ernesto Garratt, a journalist with the Chilean
newspaper El Mercurio, said the crowd started booing partly
because the cinema had set the screen to the wrong ratio,
cutting off the edges of the picture - but also partly because
of the distribution dispute.
"They were booing for both reasons," he said.
Staff adjusted the curtains at the side of the screen and
restarted the film from the beginning shortly afterwards. The
audience booed the Netflix logo when it appeared on screen for a
second time then settled down and applauded at the end.
"This incident was entirely the responsibility of the Festival’s
technical service, which offers its apologies to the director,
his teams, the producers and the audience at the showing," the
festival said in a statement.
(Reporting by Robin Pomeroy; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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