Polanski to show new film in France
PARIS (AFP) — Controversial director Roman Polanski — who is still wanted in the US for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl — will premiere his new film at the Cannes film festival next month, the organizers said Thursday.
“From a True Story” — which stars Polanski’s French wife Emmanuelle Seigner and former Bond actress Eva Green — will be shown in Cannes outside the main competition.
The maker of “Chinatown” and “Rosemary’s Baby” was forced to withdraw from the “French Oscars” — the Cesars — earlier this year after protests by feminists.
Polanski has been on the run for almost four decades for having unlawful sex with the teenager at film star Jack Nicholson’s house in Los Angeles in 1977.
Polanski, 83, failed to negotiate a return to the US this month.