VENICE, Sept 2 — The producer of Roman Polanski’s latest movie, The Palace, bemoaned the fact that no one wanted the distribution rights for the film in the United States,...
VENICE, Sept 2 — The producer of Roman Polanski’s latest movie,, bemoaned the fact that no one wanted the distribution rights for the film in the United States, Britain and France, saying morality should not weigh on art.
After the #MeToo movement gained global traction in 2017 following sexual abuse allegations against US film producer Harvey Weinstein, a number of women alleged that Polanski had sexually assaulted them as teenagers as well. The producer Luca Barbareschi said he had sold distribution rights across continental Europe, but not in France, Britain or the United States, despite the fact well-known actors from all three countries appeared in the film., which opened at the Venice Film Festival in 2019 to critical acclaim, had also never been seen in cinemas in the United States, Britain, Australia or New Zealand.
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