Director Cafe Society has assured worried organizers of the Cannes Festival appreciate the humor in all its forms, even “provocative”. Laurent Lafitte had him engage in a confident explanation of text not have been aware of allegations against the director relayed by his son in a scathing forum.
la Croisette observers saw it as the first controversy of this Cannes 2016, but for those interested, “this is a storm in a teacup”, says Laurent Lafitte. The actor and Woody Allen commented separately controversy engendered by the French master of the Festival’s opening ceremony, which was launched on Wednesday at the American filmmaker: “It’s good that you are in France because the latter years you have toured extensively in Europe, while you are not even convicted of rape in the United States. “
words much closer to reality than the suspected Laurent Lafitte. Hours earlier, the son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, Ronan Farrow, recalled in an incendiary forum that for 20 years his sister accused their father of abusing her.
When Laurent Lafitte sent his wit, shock murmurs were heard in the hall of the Palais des festivals. A concern shared by the organizers of the event. By the end of the ceremony, the general delegate Thierry Fremaux went to Woody Allen to be sure that the director who started the festival had not been offended. According to V ariety , the filmmaker 80 years reassured unambiguously confident appreciate the humor in all its forms, even “provocative”.
Same bell in the next day at a lunch organized in honor of Cafe society Variety . Woody Allen reiterated be “fully supports what the actors do the jokes they want to do.” Reminding journalists of the publication Hollywood that he himself was “a comic.” Before adding that “it took a lot to feel offended that he is.”
Asked about allegations of Dylan Farrow, her adopted daughter who accused him of sexual abuse as a child, Allen said he had “already said everything” on this subject. Twenty years old, the case came when the director left his then-girlfriend Mia Farrow, for the adopted daughter of this Soon-Yi Previn, 21 years old at the time. The separation, which had scandalized many in itself escalated when Dylan Farrow, Allen and Farrow had adopted together, says a judge “his father Woody Allen made her things she did not like” .
The filmmaker had denied any inappropriate gesture and saw the hand of Mia Farrow who sought to draw his children against him. A survey of social services in New York had concluded at the time of a court battle for custody of these, the sexual assault charges were “inconclusive.” But Dylan Farrow reiterated his accusations publicly in 2014. The American director had once described as “false and shameful”.
The forum of Ronan Farrow May 11, which criticizes the press and Hollywood ignore this matter was published in the Hollywood reporter. retaliatory measure obliges, the son of the director was denied access to the lunch Café Society . But the specialist journal was able to talk with Laurent Lafitte and see how the actor lived controversy over his joke that has also angered the relatives of Roman Polanski who also felt targeted. “I did not want to hurt anyone,” he swears. “When I got on stage, I did not know Ronan Farrow wrote this open letter and evoked suspicion of rape. If I had known, I should have this witticism, “he reveals.
And adds: “When I wrote that joke there three weeks, I was aiming for the American Puritanism. I was surprised that a great American director Woody Allen turns as much in Europe as it [was not prosecuted for rape in the United States] as Roman Polanski. I knew nothing of the case. “
Laurent Lafitte said that Pierre Lescure who chairs the Festival Thierry Fremaux and attended rehearsals of the opening ceremony and found nothing wrong with her text, except to ask him to give up an embarrassing joke on Nicole Kidman. Thierry Fremaux even made it the report of his interview with Woody Allen … and the American director would have found the boarder of the French comedy “funny”. Laurent Lafitte and concluded: “It is sad to retain only those 20 seconds 45 minutes speech”
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