Posted on 03/01/2020 12:36:49 PM PST by Libloather
PARIS - Several women walked out of France's film academy as it presented its version of the Oscars on Friday where director Roman Polanski's latest film is up for the most awards.
Women's rights activists also protested outside the Paris concert hall where the Cesar awards were being held.
Polanski decided to skip the ceremony because of earlier protests by women's groups denouncing the 12 nominations “An Officer and a Spy” received after a French woman brought a new rape accusation against him.
A few hundred protesters brandishing signs with phrases such as “Victims, we believe you” and “No to impunity" assembled outside the Salle Pleyel hall before the ceremony started.
The group chanted, “We are here, we are here, even if Polanski doesn't want to, we are here." The entire male-dominated leadership of the Cesars stepped down recently amid a spat over its byzantine decision-making structure and over how to deal with the Polanski problem.
In a statement this week, the Paris-based Polanski, 86, said the ceremony was turning into a “public lynching" and that he decided not to attend the ceremony to protect his colleagues and his wife and children.
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Hmmm those Euros not seeming to be so enlightened these days eh Roman?
Didn’t they get the memo from Whoopi? It wasn’t “rape rape” per Whoopi’s criteria.
What are these awards, the “Frenchies”? “Ze Oskars”?
Just a guess but I doubt the View translates very well over there and no one knows about it.
I missed that memo.
What was Whoopi trying to explain?
So WHAT is "rape rape"?
Where is the French Meryl Streep when you need her to be in the corner of the rapist?
Whoopi was trying to say that Polanski was not guilty of actual forcible rape of the girl. She was probably alluding to the plea bargain to lesser charges which was being worked out in his case. That all became a different legal issue altogether, when he decided to leave the country rsther than face justice.
But Whoopi said it wasn’t “rape rape” in that he wasn’t convicted of forcible physical rape.
They may think it a shame that he wasn’t home when Charlie’s angels came a-calling.
Thanks for the explanation.
Polanski decided to skip the ceremony because of earlier protests by women's groups denouncing the 12 nominations “An Officer and a Spy” received after a French woman brought a new rape accusation against him.
Other forms of degeneracy are still okay with them.
HOORAY woman, ladies, girls, mothers, aunties, grandmothers.
I don’t pay too much attention to women protesting unless they take their tops off and write slogans on themselves.
In small letters do you have to look carefully to understand their important message!
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