Posted on 10/02/2009 12:55:51 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
GENEVA (AFP) – Dutch-born director Jan Kounen has withdrawn his Cannes-premiered movie about Coco Chanel from the Zurich film festival in protest at the arrest of filmmaker Roman Polanski, the organisers said Friday.
Kounen asked the festival to halt the planned first Swiss screening of "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky" on Friday evening, festival spokeswoman Nadja Schildknecht told the Swiss news agency ATS.
The film, screened as the out-of-competition closing movie at the Cannes Festival this year, tells the story of an intense love affair between the glamorous French fashion icon and destitute Russian composer Igor Stravinsky in the 1920s.
Kounen has spent most of his career in France.
Schildknecht said the move was not targeted at the festival but against Switzerland following Polanski's detention in Zurich this week.
The 76 year-old French-Polish fugitive Oscar winner was due to collect a lifetime achievement award at the festival in the Swiss city.
Polanski fled California in 1978 to avoid a jail term after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13 year-old girl.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
This 1977 photo shows Polish-French filmmaker Roman Polanski (right) leaving the Santa Monica Superior Court with his attorney Douglas Dalton after pleading guilty to a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl. Polanski's lawyers have vowed to fight his extradition to the US over a three-decade-old child sex case and called his surprise detention in Switzerland "illegal". (AFP/File)
>> Dutch-born director Jan Kounen has withdrawn his Cannes-premiered movie about Coco Chanel from the Zurich film festival in protest at the arrest of filmmaker Roman Polanski
Sounds like a “win-win” to me.
Its amazing how these articles avoid the word “rape”
A general view shows the chalet 'Milky Way', which is, according to Swiss newspapers, the chalet of Oscar-winning film director Roman Polanski in the Swiss mountain resort of Gstaad September 30, 2009. Lawyers for Polanski lodged an appeal with a Swiss court on Tuesday against his arrest on a U.S. extradition warrant to face sentence for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (GERMANY ENTERTAINMENT CRIME LAW)
Child Rapists of the World, Unite! Mmm, mmm, mmm.
Yea, its really going to screw up my movie watch list! NOT!
Cheers!
Here’s a short clip from his movie;
http://tinyurl.com/yeqzceb
So another person signs up in support of child rape.
Wow! So some director is pulling a film idolizing a Nazi collaborator because the Swiss have thrown a rapist in jail. Okay.
I can just all those despondent Swiss hurling themselves off the mountain tops at this development.
Really, these arteeests need to get over themselves.
That’s right bringing a sicko to justice for doping, raping and sodomizing a 13 year old girl is a travesty... a travesty I say... it most be stopped.
“Your sins will find you out”.
With Polanski, it’s better late than never!
I'm heart broken. How will I ever live?
Good, now cancel the whole stupid conference. The spoiled brats should be thankful they still have a place to live, instead of telling us alll how great they are.
“I’m heart broken. How will I ever live?”
My wife will force me to watch “America’s Next Top Model” instead.
Really a stupid thing to do.
1. supporting a sex pervert labels you as questionable at least.
2. Borrowing money to make a film, and then destroying it’s chances for success deliberately over a sex pervert sure does put a mark on you for the banks to never lend you a penny in the future.
What a total putz.
Polanski needs to spend the rest of his life in jail.
well, I guess he showed them :P
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