The list of shame: Woody Allen, Roman Polanski and Luc Besson are invited to present their films at the Venice Film Festival

It is one of the most prestigious film festivals in cinema and takes the world back 5 years, before all the #MeToo progress.

It’s a real spit in the face of the victims and the people who fight the rapes It is against the impunity of men accused of sexual violence in the film world.

The Venice Film Festival has thus rolled out the red carpet to Roman Polanski and Woody Allen, invited to present their new films out of competition – The palace for the first, Fluke for the second.

As for Luc Besson, he’s part of the competition with his new transphobic film, Dogmanwhat stages a psychopathic serial killer in disguise. It is therefore possible that this film will walk away with a reward.

When the US turns its back on filmmakers accused or prosecuted for sexual assault, Europe rolls out the red carpet for them

As a reminder, Luc Besson was accused of sexual assault by the actress Sand Van Roy who filed a rape complaint on May 18, 2018. After the Court of Cassation ruled in favor of Luc Besson declaring his dismissal, the actress announced that she was going to the European Court of Human Rights.

As for Roman Polanski is still being prosecuted by American justice, and he has been 1977. He is accused of raping Samantha Geimer, a 13-year-old girl. New rape allegations brought by eleven other women have been added in recent years. As he was about to be sentenced several decades in prison, the director had fled to Paris in January 1978 and has not returned to the United States since. Roman Polansky he will be tried in France in March 2024 for defamation of one of the women who accused him of rape, the actress Charlotte Lewis.

Finally, Woody Allen is accused by his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow of rape in 1992, when she was elderly 7 years. The director denies these accusations outright. He was targeted by two investigations, which were unsuccessful. In the United States, the industry has turned away from him: Woody Allen no longer makes films there. For his new film titled Flukethis is France that welcomed him with open armshero Lou de Laâge, Niels Schneider, Valérie Lemercier, Melvil Poupaud and Elsa Zylberstein. It is not the first time that Woody Allen has turned to Europe to direct his films. Shot in Spain, his latest film Rifkin’s party last year in France it attracted only 89,000 spectators.

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