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The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival kicks off tonight (Tuesday 14 May) with the opening film by Quentin Dupieux, Le Deuxième Acte. Beforehand, this year's jury, led by Little Women and Barbie director Greta Gerwig, participated in the yearly jury press conference. Joining Gerwig on the jury are US actress Lily Gladstone, who became the first Native American to be Oscar nominated for Best Actress for her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon; Japanese director and Palme d’Or winner Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose film Monster was screened in Competition last year in Cannes and won Best Sc...
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In his annual pre-festival opening press conference, Cannes General Delegate Thierry Frémaux announced that he would like to “have a festival free of polemics.” Hot-button topics like #MeToo, with the looming report of abuse in French cinema, the threat of employment strikes disrupting this year’s edition of the festival, as well as the war in Gaza, were largely avoided by Frémaux. When asked if the festival had, as widely reported, hired a crisis management team to deal with the possible earthquake of #MeToo allegations against French talent taking part in this year’s festival, Frémaux said h...
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The Cannes Film Festival starts next week, on Tuesday (14 May), with the opening film Le Deuxième Acte from French absurdist Quentin Dupieux. However, it’s already off to a rocky start, with a French labour group representing freelance workers at film festivals calling for a strike. As if that wasn’t enough of a headache for the Croisette, speculation is mounting in the French media over rumours that a bombshell #MeToo exposé will drop on the day of the opening. Indeed, there are rumours of a mysterious list of 10 actors / directors / producers who are set to be accused of #MeToo allegations d...
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In a significant development, New York's highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction. The decision, decided by a 4-3 vote, was anchored on the premise that the presiding judge in the watershed #MeToo trial had unfairly prejudiced the disgraced former movie mogul with what the court described as “egregious” improper rulings. Among these, the court highlighted a crucial decision allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case. “We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against person...
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Following the flurry of accusations against Gérard Depardieu and the watershed #MeToo moment France is finally facing in its insular entertainment industry, there seems to be further forward progress. The French comedy industry has adopted an essential "charter of good conduct", in order to combat the growing cases of sexual and sexist harassment and violence that have been reported in the industry. Spearheaded by Jessie Varin, artistic director of Parisian barge theatre Nouvelle Seine, the #MeTooStandUp initiative aims to prevent all "forms of sexist and sexual violence and harassment before,...
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Veteran Franco-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski goes on trial in France today over allegations he defamed British actress Charlotte Lewis, who accused him of sexual abuse in the 1980s. The 90-year-old director, who currently resides in Paris, is not due to appear in court, his lawyers have said. Lewis, 56, will be present at the trial. Lewis claimed in May 2010 that Polanski had sexually assaulted her during an audition at his Paris home in 1983, when she was just 16 years old. The actress, who later starred in Polanski's 1986 film Pirates, did not go to the police in the UK, but instead shared...
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Launched by American activist Tarana Burke in 2006, the #MeToo hashtag was popularised by American actress Alyssa Milano on social networks, and contributed to the downfall of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. It shook Hollywood to its core and sparked worldwide conversations about the sexism, sexual harassment and abuse suffered by women across the planet, no matter their industries. While the movement gained momentum in countries like the UK and Sweden, others like Italy and France have been lagging behind – even if some cases have started to shake things up, like the Til Schweiger accusa...
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French actor Judith Godrèche has urged politicians to establish a commission to investigate sex crimes and sexism in French cinema. Godrèche gave an emotional testimony to a French Senate commission on Thursday recalling her own experiences as a teenager breaking into the industry. “Everyone knows that in the film industry, an abuser disguised as a director makes little girls suffer so they cry … He then arranges to meet them in an attic room and takes possession of them for real,” Godrèche said in her opening remarks. Visibly shaken, she said she didn’t know she had the right to say “no.” God...
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