French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius has just published a searing letter condemning ISIS for their involvement in last weekend's terror attacks in Paris that left 129 dead and countless more injured.
The academy award winner, best known to movie goers for his 2011 best picture winning silent film The Artist, posted the message on his personal Facebook account. Variety was the first to pick up on the news and subsequently published an English translation of Hazanavicius' message. Here are some snippets of the letter.
"So that's it, it's official, you are at war against us. What's frustrating is that you wear no uniform or distinctive sign so we don't know how to identify you, and we therefore have no one to fight against." Says Hazanavicius to open the letter.
"Frustration which I hope won't lead to wrong accusations. Even if every death represents for you a victory, you must know that you will not win any time soon. In reality, it's even impossible."
Like the cartoon created by Charlie Hebdo's Joanne Sfar in response to the attacks, Hazanavicius letter touched on the free and easy French way of life.
'For us, between being born and dying the oldest as possible, the idea is mainly to have sex, laugh, eat, play, have sex, drink, nap, have sex, discuss, eat, argue, paint, have sex, walk, garden, read, have sex, offer, argue, sleep, watch movies, scratch our balls, fart to make friends laugh, but more than anything have sex. We are the country of pleasure more than morale."
He ends his message by saying ISIS cannot win. "You will cause deaths, yes. But in the eye of history, you will be nothing but the abject symptoms of a sick ideology." He writes.
To see the full message, check out Variety.
