They protect their own, I protect my own. He describes grooming Gailey on the drive to the photoshoot: I asked when shed first started having sex, he writes, as if thats a normal thing for a 43-year-old man to ask a 13-year-old girl. One of the petition's signatories was Natalie Portman, who told BuzzFeed(Opens in a new tab) she "very much" regrets putting her name on it. Woody Allen, David Lynch and Martin Scorsese today added their names to a petition demanding the immediate release of Roman Polanski from detention in Zurich. Sam Gabarski And I was like, sure. He didnt answer me when I said no Then he lifted up my legs farther and he went in through my anus.. Making good films does not exempt you from the law. And yet, for the past 40 years, many of them have been falling over themselves to work with a self-confessed child rapist, even defending him by pointing to his artistic credentials. the mindset to handle this cituation in a mature I dont tacitly approve of rape, said Meryl Streep. And please dont take the whole But but hes so charming and he gives to charity! defense. Actor Scott Caan, the son of the late actor James Caan, has filed a petition to manage his father's estate in new court documents obtained by The Blast. I wonder how these signers would feel if it was one of their kids? Whether its 5 years or 20 years is irrelevant. I understand that Hitler was a good painterMaybe we shouldnt have closed in on and bombed his bunker because good painters are a treasure.. Please! I have copied this list so that I can keep it for all time (yes, I hold a grudge a long, long, time). Tony Gatlif Under 1192.5 of the Penal Code that the approval of the Court to the plea is not binding to the Court.. (that the court may change the terms upon further review) How do you plead to this felony? Jonathan Majors on Oscar Favorites, Bad Reviews, and the Road Trip That Made Him Realize He Was a Star, The Best Picture Race Got a Lot More Confusing This Week, Tom Cruise Made the Rounds This Week, but Other Oscar Nominees Got More Applause Than Top Gun: Maverick, How Michael B. Jordans Love of Anime Shaped Creed III Fight Scenes, Translating the Unconscious Into Images: The Cinematography of Bardo, Poker Face Takes Viewers on a Cross-Country Road Trip Without Leaving New York, The 50 Best Movies of 2022, According to 165 Critics from Around the World, All 81 Titles Unceremoniously Removed from HBO Max (So Far), 10 Shows Canceled but Not Forgotten in 2022. He hadnt committed rape-rape, Whoopi Goldberg said on TV. Claude Lanzmann Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kate Winslet and many more have appeared in Polanski movies in the decades since his conviction, and questions about why they were working with a convicted child rapist were seen as tacky, proof of a rigid mind more focused on gossip than art. But like so many narcissistic and selfish Americans, a crime is only a crime when it happens to YOU, screw everyone else. Mr. Polanski is not a threat to anyone. I do along with those who loves Jean-Paul Rappeneau Free shipping for many products! Argento spoke publicly about her support for Polanski in a Twitter post in 2017, writing: "I already regretted signing the petition years ago, already felt it was a mistake. Too icky, I suppose to add the details of your purported heros heinous crime. Jean-Pierre Marois Just Jaeckin Furthermore, plea bargains are totally up to the judge, if he felt the deal was too lenient than he was perfectly in his legal right to not honor the deal. Page 15 13. Feminist groups that challenged him were derided or ignored. High-profile actors like Kate Winslet and Adrien Brody continued to work with him. Its neutrality applies in times of war and peace, not in the application of treaty and criminal laws. California turns people loose that are highly likely to offend again due to space and budgetary issues. A host of directors and actors followed Weinstein, signing the petition for Polanski, including Natalie Portman, Tilda Swinton and Emma Thompson. John Landis Strip polanski of his resume and he is a man. Since then, many of them with names on the petition have claimed that they were forced to sign it. The fact that filmmakers may present their work and travel freely and safely at and to film events, as every person may do at and to other unrestricted public properties, does not make them diplomats. I just went through my Netflix queue and carefully combed out all movies affiliated with any of these people. Gianluca Farinelli A shameful chapter indeed - let us hope it will soon be brought to a close. Mr. Polanksi should have long since addressed the matter. Unless the Puritans secretly championed the rights and autonomy of women. Because you know, rapists are never charming, are they? 8 8 Most Beautiful French Actresses . Polanski has not served his time and now he is guilty of evading justice. No one should have pity for him - his suffering is completely self-inflicted. Where does the quest for boycott end? That doesnt change the fact that mr Polanski is a scumbag and a halve who drugged and raped a child when he was 44, fled the country to live in France where he continued to make movies, live a good life etc. On 1 February 1978, after 42 days in jail, Polanski fled the US while awaiting final sentencing, having pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. And I think we live in a post-Hamilton world where we don't even need to think about what's authentic to the character, like faithful to the character," Portman said. My level of disgust for these petitions cannot even be fully expressed. Thierry Fremaux They want a circus of blood. I cant wait to get out of this f**ed up town. Roman Polanski is an ADMITTED child rapist. I plan to try very hard to never see any work done by anyone who signed this petition. Michel Ferry -For a list of signatories, continue to the next page.-. Fonda made his professional. Any improper actions of the court in this case were long ago exposed and could be addressed at trial. What happened to the feminists? In recent months, Polanskis supporters in Britain and the US, who were once so vocal in his defence, have been notable by their silence. This extradition, if it takes place, will be heavy in consequences and will take away his freedom. The man has no remorse for what he did as evidenced by interviews he has given. - le Fonds Culturel Franco Amricain He was the younger brother of actress and activist Jane Fonda and the father of actress Bridget Fonda. Roman Polanski is a Polish filmmaker who has been a fugitive from the U.S. criminal justice system, since 1978, after pledging guilty to statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl. At the end of the day Polanski fled not because of a legal transgression on the part of the California justice system but because he thinks hes above the law and does not have to answer to a code of ethics that conflicts with his selfish and perverse tastes. Paul Boujenah Read the unsealed records at the smoking gun. In 2008, film-maker Marina Zenovich caught the mood and pushed it further with her documentary, the queasily titled Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which argued that Polanski was the victim of gross judicial misconduct during his case. etc. You people that support this kind of act should be ashamed of yourselves. US-French relations have nothing to do with Polanski drugging and raping a child. Jerry Schatzberg His arrest follows an American arrest warrant dating from 1978 against . Ask any rape victim and we will tell you that we would give anything if the rapist had been prosecuted and locked up forever before we were victimized by them! And I propose a boycott of all those individuals (and their businesses) who supported the illegal and murderous war in Iraq.. Lets show we really care about children! At Jack Nicholsons house, she tells him shes thirsty, so he gives her alcohol. Pierre Jolivet She played Lena, while her co-star Jennifer Jason Leigh played Dr. Ventress, described as being of Asian and Native American background respectively in the novel. She is a child. What a sad coward. That type of self-righteousness is sickening and even more dangerous than what Polanski did because it affects society as a whole, whether the issue is rape or anything else. The rest say they are too busy. If you knew any feminists, youd know that most, if not all, are on your side in this particular case (although probably for very different reasons). Emir Kusturica It speaks terribly of the industry, she replies. Let me enlighten you: This was a common criminal apprehension. Pedro Almodovar It feels GOOD. Everytime you pop in Rosemarys baby or Chinatown think about how YOU helped commit the rape of a 13 year old girl. Harvey Weinstein wrote an open letter in his support, in which he claimed: Whatever you think of his so-called crime, Polanski has served his time. Supporting Polanski became like owning a Prius: something any fashionable, well-heeled liberal should do. What was done to that 13 year old victim should not be perpetrated on any child. This Article is related to: News and tagged. Once again, shame on all who signed this petition and feel Polanski shouldnt be punished! Laurence Roulet Gailey sensed something different. Shame on all of you. Who gives a shit? Only one persons behaviour is at issue here, Roman Polanski and he deserves to be in prison because he drugged, then raped, then sodomized a 13 year old girl despite her pleas for him to stop. so dont free him :), First off Mr. Polanski did not rape anyone. Alexander Payne Socially conscious & political cinema. I start by emailing Zenovich to ask if she feels attitudes towards Polanski have changed since she made her movie and its follow-up, Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out, about the Zurich arrest. Alongside Asia Argento and Emma Thompson, Natalie Portman remains one of the few celebrities to apologize for signing the petition. And here is another Free Polanski petition, this one organized by writer/philosopher Bernard-Henri Lvy. But one can have enormous sympathy for those losses, and also feel that offering up dead women as mitigating factors for raping a girl doesnt really wash. It is amazing at all of the people that dont care that a 13 year old girl was raped. thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0928091polanskiplea1.html. Laurent Heynemann But Gailey wouldnt have had to endure any attention if Polanski hadnt raped her. Kingsley, who has worked with Polanski multiple times, would need to pass. It seems inadmissible to them that an international cultural event, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, is used by the police to apprehend him. His movies went on to win six Oscars. NASA smacked an asteroid with a spacecraft. I dont wish to admire anyone who has such a twisted sense of values. If he's lucky.". The student's petition, entitled: "Drop the petition for Roman Polanski's release", was launched last week, and has over 400 signatures. and what does this have to do with children in other countries being raped and starved to death, jarre? I have also read the facts spred online. Nicolas Mauvernay i just cant comprehend how you can just so willingly run to the aid of a man who raped a child. I was asked by friends from the Cannes film festival to sign it. Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. The judge certainly didnt give A DAMN about the girl. Though he was released from custody by July 2010, over 100 members of the film industry . We lived in a different world, and that doesn't excuse anything. As to the victim wanting to drop the case, it is because she is tired of all the publicity her family gets every time Polanski whines about not being able to go to a certain country to film. Jol Farges One would think that these filmmakers have enough money to hire a proper lawyer to draft their petition, if they were serious about it. Vangelis, By trying to send Roman Polanski to the lions despite all the legal arguments, is something that unfortunately gets and will get more and more out of proportion. if i was in her position, i would say anything as well. Posting their names publicly in support of Polanski speaks loudly regarding their . Jean-Michel Carre Julian Schnabel When the Harvey Weinstein story broke last October, the reaction among the movie industry was wide-eyed shock that someone so many of them knew and worked with could be a rapist. Personally, I can live with a Hugh Grant who got a blow-job from a prostitute. 5. Broadly reached out to del Toro to ask if he regrets supporting Polanski, but he declined to reply by the time of publication. Ren Gainville Giuseppe Tornatore The petition, made public in September 2009, demanded "the immediate release of Roman Polanski" after the Rosemary's Baby filmmaker was detained days earlier in Switzerland on a warrant for. Id say that a number of these (American) one-hit wonders and struggling Indie folks appear to want to install themselves in more-accomplished company. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images. The active paedophile is stealing childhoods. Broadly reached out to Anderson to ask if he regrets supporting Polanski, but he declined to reply by the time of publication. Jean-Paul Salom She has also remained silent on the #MeToo and Times Up campaigns. Its despicable that some Hollywood stars would rather support a pedophile then uphold a serious charge such as rape of an underage girl. "The thing I feel like I gained from it is empathy towards people who have made mistakes. Gabriel Auer The more Ive learned about the original case and subsequent events, the more horrified I have become., Since Argento went public with her allegations against Weinstein in October, a lot has been written about how the film industry will no longer cover up abuse. For a long time, the simple and somewhat simplistic - divide was that while people in mainland Europe viewed Polanski as a tragic artist undone by US prurience and corruption, Americans saw him, as he put it in his autobiography, as an evil, profligate dwarf. 17 HBO and HBO Max Original Series to Get Excited About in 2023. Signed? Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen want Roman Polanski released from a Swiss Jail.The two directors and more than 100 other filmmakers and actors have signed a petition voicing their objection to . and seeing people in the comments try to defend him as well by saying the girl was mature for her age? Well, so do I. I ask why she signed the petition in the first place. It makes me sad to know so many people who I look up to in the field of the arts are supporters of rape. He & his friends will be able to afford the best lawyers. See you at your inbox! We have learned the astonishing news of Roman Polanskis arrest by the Swiss police on September 26th, upon arrival in Zurich (Switzerland) while on his way to a film festival where he was due to receive an award for his career in filmmaking. Forty years ago this week, Roman Polanski went from being one of the most celebrated film-makers in the world to becoming the United States most notorious fugitive from justice. 4. i do realize that no ones is going to take me seriously,but here it goes anyways. When he then learned she was only 15, he continued to sleep with her for several months, he wrote. Someone I respected gave it to me, and said, 'I signed this. The victim wants the case dropped, but oh no. I was mostly just on and off saying: No, stop. But I wasnt fighting really because there was no one else there and I had no place to go. Woody Allen supports him-big shocker (the guy who is now married to the woman who was essentially his stepdaughter). What preyytell has he done for you that you would abandon your senses in this way. Richard Pena Scott Foundas In 1976, he met Nastassja Kinski and, according to his autobiography, slept with her. Given Portman's active involvement in the Time's Up movement, her signing of the petition came from a misplaced sense of empathy. In 2009, when Polanski was arrested at a Zurich airport in a failed extradition attempt, over 100 Hollywood celebrities signed a petition calling for his release. It was a mistake. It is also irrelevant if her mother was trying to vicariously enjoy a brush with stardom. Michael A. Russ Erika Abrams, Fatih Akin, Yves Alberty, Stephane Allagnon, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodvar, Gianni Amelio, Greta Amend, Wes Anderson, Michel Andrieu, Roger Andrieux, Pascale Angelini, Yannick Angelloznicoud Jean-Jacques Annaud, Tomas Arana, Frdric Aranzueque-Arrieta, Alexandre Arcady, Fanny Ardant, Asia Argento, Marie-Hlne Arnau, Jean-Jacques Annaud I then contact 25 actors who have worked with Polanski since his arrest, including Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Christoph Waltz, Kate Winslet, Kim Cattrall, Pierce Brosnan and Jodie Foster. Patrice Chereau Instead, the Isle of Dogs premiere featured a carpet that was resolutely red. Natalie Portman. I dont know what the rationals might be for those who seek his pardoning, be it moral ambiguity, sycophancy, going along with what they see as hip or simply the belief that the group they belong to is somehow superior and has a right to use common people for their own amusement, but it would be a mistake to give the law a pass to accommodate this utterly reprehensible man. Some think that sex with a child is a crime not just against the child, but against society. but the fact that he drugged her,and had anal sex with her ruins it. The judge went back on his word because he was afriad of public opinion like yours. Justice at least will have run its course. He plead guilty to a lesser charge of unlawful sex with a minor because he knew they had enough evidence to fry his ass if it went to trial. - la SACD A 13-year-old cannot give consent to have sex with an adult male. The infamous Polanski petition was also signed by beloved auteurs like Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Wong Kar-wai and Darren Aronofsky among others who asked for the release of Polanski when he was arrested in Switzerland in 2009. My level of disgust at the people who express disgust at the signatories of the Polanski petitioni and then go off sounding more deranged and more dangerous than Polanski could ever be is too strong for me to express in mere words. She has had to hear about this, talk about this, show up for the DA, etc, and frankly, after 30 years and your entire adult life having to talk about how you were raped when you were a teenager, I would want the whole thing dropped as well. In 2018, Portman apologised and expressed regret for signing the petition. But to be honest, there are very few "Hollywood" names on the list and a ton of European names on the list. This list is a paltry portion of the total number of A-list film celebrities with their names on the petition. Polanski recounts what he describes as making love so sexily you can practically hear his heavy breathing. actually, it is the people who think that someone who is a famous white male should get away with this that concerns me. The thing I feel like I gained from it is empathy towards people who have made mistakes. Alain Terzian I understand that there seems to have been a biased judge in the original case. Natalie Portman admitted that she made a mistake when she signed a petition to release Roman Polanski from Swiss custody in 2009 after he was . If he was some crack head living in harlem and raped a girl would the same supporters come to the rescue? Polanski directs Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly in the 2011 film Carnage. Laws - rape (statutory or otherwise) and escape from justice - have been broken. Is anyone surprised that Woody Allen, seen here with his wife and stepdaughter, supports Roman Polansky You'll find hundreds of names on Hollywood's pro-Polanski petition. He was a filmmaker whose work I admired greatly. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 1994 Actor Death And The Maiden Director Roman Polanski Fine Line 8X10 Photo at the best online prices at eBay! Actually Polanski never admitted to raping anyone. Polanski raped a 13 year old girl and skipped out on the sentencing he should rot in jail for a long time. No excuses. Sari, to quote you: If Polanski had killed the girl instead of raping her, the whole matter would have been forgotten long ago, In what world would murder be forgotten? The filmmaker had been detained over a 1977 underage sex case from the U.S., which he plead guilty to. Thats why even though there are many other bad things in the world, this one IS important. This is a real asteroid-kicking movie. On Tuesday, Natalie Portman apologized for signing the 2009 petition in support of Polanski. Shall we all rape, murder, steal, defraud etc. A petition demanding his release was signed by more than 100 actors and film-makers, including Emma Thompson (who later asked to have her name removed), Yasmina Reza and Tilda Swinton. Alexandre Arcady Alexandre Tylski How else will they have their entertainment? After Roman Polanski 's 2009 arrest in Switzerland for the 1977 rape of a 13-year-old girl, more than 100 actors and directors united to release a petition urging for his . So is Roman Polanski. When Winslet was asked last September whether she had any qualms about working with Woody Allen, another director accused (but, unlike Polanski, never arrested and never charged) of a sex crime against a minor, she replied: Having thought it all through, you put it to one side and just work with the person. Wong Kar Wa This article was amended on 30 January 2018. The man is an animal and a coward. Amongst them were a swathe of high-profile names, including Woody Allen, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Tilda Swinton, Darren Aronofsky, Monica Bellucci, Asia Argento and Wes Anderson. Giuseppe Bertolucci Juries want to fuck young girls everyone wants to fuck young girls! (Amis, clearly shocked, wrote: Even Humbert Humbert realised that young girls dont really know whether they are willing or not. In the aftermath of Polanski's arrest last weekend, a number of performers -- including Penelope Cruz, Tilda Swinton and Monica Bellucci -- appear as supporters on a petition which states,. We demand the immediate release of Roman Polanski, urges the petition. Abderrahmane Sissako Here are some tips and tricks to help you find the answer to 'Wordle' #622. Jacques Richard Living with regret. Luc Barnier Woody Allen, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Martin Scorcese, David Lynch, Wong Kar Wai, Harmony Korine, Stephen Frears . polanski never openly apologized and the only reason why this case has dragged on for so long is because polanski denied raping her and skipped town. Danis Tanovic I then contact the film-makers who signed the 2009 petition demanding Polanskis release, including David Lynch, Wes Anderson and Martin Scorsese.