Women and Hollywood, one of the US lobby groups at the head of the #MeToo movement in the film industry, said the decision to give him an honorary Palme d'Or 'sucked'.
CANNES - The Cannes film festival opens Tuesday amid a row over its decision to honour the veteran French star Alain Delon who has been accused of being violent towards women.
An online petition calling for the Delon prize to be stopped branded the 83-year-old actor a "racist, homophobic misogynist". Women and Hollywood founder Melissa Silverstein tweeted that she was appalled that Cannes was honouring Delon given that he "has publicly admitted to slapping women and he has claimed that being gay is against nature.""He has aligned himself with the racist and anti-Semitic National Front," she added, which was founded by his life-long friend Jean-Marie Le Pen, which has been renamed as the National Rally by his daughter Marine, who now leads the far-right party.
His son said the star of such screen classics as The Leopard, The Swimming Pool and Le Samourai had beaten his mother, breaking eight of her ribs and her nose twice. "It's complicated to judge someone through today's lens, and judge things that were said and that happened years ago," Fremaux said, adding: "We're not giving him the Nobel Peace Prize."A petition calling for the honorary Cannes prize to be withheld clocked up nearly 18,000 signatures on the Care2 website.
Festival director Fremaux refused to be drawn on the case of Kechiche - who won the Palme d'Or in 2013 with the lesbian love story Blue Is the Warmest Colour.
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