With cries of “turn off the attention to rapists” and “we don’t want patriarchy,” the protest took place in front of the Palazzo del Cinema, while director Woody Allen and his wife Sun-Yi Previn were on the red carpet ahead of the premiere. his fiftieth film Chance. But didn’t Depp’s trial teach anything?
lhe protests also against Roman Polanski and Luc Besson (also present at the Film Festival of Discord) criticizes the choice of director Barbera to promote rape culture. However, one should ask the question: “Can the artist be separated from the person?”. Kevin Spacey and Johnny Depp nearly ruined their careers due to alleged sexual assault allegations, on which they were later acquitted. Of course, carnal violence should always be condemned, but should we piss off justified directors when they are invited to present their films? We want to close genius (who seems innocent) in a torture chamber and prevent him from doing his job in order to finally exonerate him?
Significantly, what Mr. Allen has defined as “the problem of boundaries in his relationship with his daughter Dylan” should be of little interest to the viewer who bought a ticket to his film. Myself Woody Allen in general, he is a pig is unknown, according to what we know today, he would be innocent.
THATThe director then stated that the little girl made up the whole story by copying Dory Previn’s song titled “With My Father in the Attic” step by step, adding that he could not even think of stepping into the attic. such a bottleneck as he was always claustrophobic. On top of everything else, let’s assume that he really did something bad, so why don’t we go back to the processes to discuss it, and leave the task of letting only art speak to cinemas and festivals? All three directors at the center of the controversy deserve to be treated as creators and not as scapegoats for a sick society that must commit itself to eradicating patriarchy and gender-based violence. It is not enough that Polanski, Besson and Allen were found not guilty by justice, do we even want to delete their names from movie books? Do we want to be negative? Using occasions like festivals to talk about lost rights is the right thing to do, as long as it’s not done at the expense of cinema.