Polanski wins best director at Cesars, prompting walkout protest via SABCNewsOnline
The French-Polish director’s dozen nominations had divided opinion in France, a country where the #MeToo movement that inspired women globally to out powerful men for sexual misconduct has struggled to gain traction.
Haenel told the New York Times before the ceremony that France had “missed the boat” on #MeToo and criticised the Cesar Awards for recognizing Polanski. Polanski himself survived the Holocaust, while his mother died in a Nazi concentration camp. He shot to fame in the US with his 1968 Hollywood film “Rosemary’s Baby.”
It is the second time in five months that recognition of Polanski, who was expelled in 2019 from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which bestows the Oscars, has prompted disquiet.
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