It was nonetheless added to the line-up for next month's festival along with another French film, "Black Flies" by Jean-Stephane Sauvaire. Corsini's inclusion extends the record number of women competing for the top prize Palme d'Or to seven out of 21 entries. The previous record of five was set last year. Among several other late additions announced on Monday was a Midnight Screening of Ben Affleck's new sci-fi thriller "Hypnotic" by cult director Robert Rodriguez.
Paris prosecutors told AFP that it had received a complaint in November about the treatment of a minor in "The Return", and that an initial investigation was launched.
French media have also reported complaints that Corsini, 66, was verbally abusive during the shoot. She previously told the French daily Le Parisien that the failure to declare the sex scene was "an administrative error" and confirmed "tensions on the set", but denied there was any "verbal or physical violence on the part of Catherine, nor in general on set".
But it also has a star-packed line-up featuring out-of-competition premieres for the new Indiana Jones and Pixar movies, as well as the latest from Martin Scorsese, "Killers of the Flower Moon".
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