CANNES, France (AP) — The 69th Cannes Film Festival has opened amid stormy skies, heightened security and the premiere of a new Woody Allen film that prompted a letter from his son Ronan Farrow questioning the festival’s and the media’s continued embrace of the 80-year-old director.
Allen brought his 1930s Hollywood romance “Cafe Society,” starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, to Cannes on Wednesday. But just minutes before Allen and his cast congregated for a press conference, a column by Farrow was posted online by The Hollywood Reporter in which he reiterated sexual abuse allegations against his father and chastised silence over the issue as “dangerous.”
No reporters asked Allen about Farrow’s column at the press conference and Allen’s publicist didn’t return an email.
Allen has previously denied molesting his adoptive daughter Dylan.
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Enough already.
Woody Allen may be a shitty person, but I don’t believe these accusations for a second. They were investigated at the time and ruled to be unfounded. Mia and Ronan Farrow are engaged in nothing more than a smear campaign.
You mean “Frank Sinatra’s Son Resurrects Sex Abuse Questions.”
Is it ever possible to be this confident about something you haven’t witnessed directly?
Yeah, enough already. He’s a great film maker, just like the wonderful Roman Polanski. It’s all in the distant past, and anyone that brings it up is engaging in a smear campaign. /s