India, Nov. 3 -- Director Taika Waititi criticised movie reviewers after his film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “Klara and the Sun” received negative reviews, according to an Instagram post he made on Oct. 31.
Instagram post and remarks
Waititi, described as an Oscar-winning filmmaker known for “Thor: Ragnarok”, “Jojo Rabit” and “The Hunt for the Wilderpeople”, said he had not read reviews aimed at him or his peers in almost 15 years, but added that he listens to “the people.”
In his caption on Oct. 31, Waititi wrote that “this Halloween” people should “spare a thought” for critics, calling them “sad lost souls” who “couldn’t achieve their dreams of becoming artists and thus settled and became critics.” He added: “The same people ...