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for the opening night of the Cannes Film Festival, the master of ceremonies, Laurent Lafitte, took the party to mock Woody Allen and evoke sexual assault charges against him.
the American director was the star of the first day of the Festival, where his film Cafe Society was presented. As noted by the New York Times , Woody Allen was asked by journalists “on what he thinks of love, fame, cast, and how it keeps the shape to turn 80 years old. He did not, however, been questioned on charges of sexual assault by her adopted daughter Dylan Farrow. ”
The comedian Laurent Laffite had fewer scruples in his monologue:
“It’s good that you are in France, because in recent years you have toured extensively in Europe, while you are not even convicted of rape in the United States. “
An old story twenty years
The master of ceremonies was referring to the legal problems of filmmaker Roman Polanski, arrested for rape in the United States in 1977, who fled the UK after being released on bail, and has never set foot on American soil. He was alluding to charges of rape of his daughter that door for twenty years against Woody Allen’s ex-girlfriend Mia Farrow. These facts date back to 1992 and it has never been convicted, even if he lost custody of her two adopted children, Dylan and Moses, in 1993.
In January 2014, the case had resurfaced in the US with the publication of an open letter to Dylan Farrow in the New York Times . Ensued was a settling of accounts through the media between Woody Allen and clan Farrow – Mia Farrow and two of his children, Ronan (natural son of Woody Allen) and Dylan. In February 2014, Woody Allen replied to the letter from his daughter, still in the New York Times , accusing Mia Farrow of manipulating their children to take revenge on him.
since, Ronan Farrow has repeatedly denounced the impunity of his father. Two days before the festival opening ceremony, he published an article in The Hollywood Reporter in which he spoke of the “powerful publicity machine” that protects Woody Allen against accusations of his daughter, implying “a number of supporters, therapists, lawyers, friends, anyone would be willing to deal with crazy manipulated or thirsting for revenge a young woman who opposes a powerful man. ”
The actors are free to do “all the jokes they want”
in this tense environment, the joke of Laurent Lafitte left many guests speechless. Note that this is also mocked Paris Hilton, it’s easy, redheads, and has long embraced Catherine Deneuve. He also paid tribute to cinema as art to overcome barbarism. Anyway, Emmanuelle Seigner did not like it at all.
After the ceremony, Woody Allen, who did not react at the time, said he was not bothered by the joke, because, being also an actor, he thinks that his colleagues should be free to make “all the jokes they want.” as in the gallery of his son, he answers have “said all he had to say” in its written reply in 2014.
however, the actress Blake Lively, the credits of the latest Woody Allen film, said she did not appreciate the black humor and the second degree to the French.
“He made homophobic remarks three in quick succession. A joke about Hitler, and a joke about rape. All in thirty seconds. We wondered what was going on. It was very confusing. “
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