Apparently, the iron law of all efforts to make the big film festivals more women-friendly is that in the end it’s always about men. Even before it opened, the 80th Venice Film Festival was marked by a debate about two men who should have played a more minor role: Roman Polanski and Woody Allen. The latter actually arrived and showed up on the red carpet on Monday evening for the premiere of his film “Coup de Chance”. The large crowd that had come for the film before that, “Priscilla”, had already left. In any case, between 20 and 30 protesters lined up in front of the festival palace and chanted that the festival’s “culture of rape” had to come to an end. Allen has been accused of abuse by his daughter Dylan Farrow. The matter was investigated as part of a custody process in the early 1990s, and no wrongdoing could be proven at the time.
Venice Film Festival: Woody Allen shows new film and provokes protest – culture
