“I think that now offering flowers to a lady becomes indecent, that’s how I feel about it,” the filmmaker explained. He added that striving for female equality was a “great pity.”
“I think to level the genders — it’s purely idiotic. I think it’s a result … of progress in medicine. I think that the Pill has changed greatly the woman of our times, ‘masculinising’ her. I think that it chases away the romance from our lives and that’s a great pity,” he added.Apparently Polanski has a problem with giving women birth control pills. Quaaludes on the other hand, are OK, especially to 13-year-olds you plan to rape.
But to be honest, I couldn't possibly despise Roman Polanski more than I already did, so this isn't that big a deal.
The real kick in the head was that thanks to this story, I discovered that:
Polanski's follow-up to his film adaptation of the award-winning play "Carnage" is another adaptation of an award-winning play (in this case an erotic two-hander by David Ives) set in a sole location...Wow, so David Ives allows his play to be directed by a fugitive from justice, child rapist, misogynist asshole. That makes David Ives an asshole in my book.
I just realized that Buck Henry, my Facebook friend, signed the petition in support of Roman Polanski. Buh-bye Buck.
Woody Allan also signed it, but everybody already knows what a piece of shit he is.
Yasmina Reza, author of the play ART also signed it. What an asshole.
Here is the full list of supporters of a child rapist's right to escape justice.
- Fatih Akin
- Stephane Allagnon
- Woody Allen
- Pedro Almodovar
- Wes Anderson
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Alexandre Arcady
- Fanny Ardant
- Asia Argento
- Darren Aronofsky
- Olivier Assayas
- Alexander Astruc
- Gabriel Auer
- Luc Barnier
- Christophe Barratier
- Xavier Beauvois
- Liria Begeja
- Gilles Behat
- Jean-Jacques Beineix
- Marco Bellochio
- Monica Bellucci
- Djamel Bennecib
- Giuseppe Bertolucci
- Patrick Bouchitey
- Paul Boujenah
- Jacques Bral
- Patrick Braoudé
- Andre Buytaers
- Christian Carion
- Henning Carlsen
- Jean-Michel Carre
- Patrice Chereau
- Elie Chouraqui
- Souleymane Cisse
- Alain Corneau
- Jerome Cornuau
- Miguel Courtois
- Dominique Crevecoeur
- Alfonso Cuaron
- Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne
- Jonathan Demme
- Alexandre Desplat
- Rosalinde et Michel Deville
- Georges Dybman
- Jacques Fansten
- Joël Farges
- Gianluca Farinelli
- Jacques Fansten
- Etienne Faure
- Michel Ferry
- Scott Foundas
- Stephen Frears
- Thierry Fremaux
- Sam Gabarski
- René Gainville
- Tony Gatlif
- Costa Gavras
- Jean-Marc Ghanassia
- Terry Gilliam
- Christian Gion
- Marc Guidoni
- Buck Henry
- David Heyman
- Laurent Heynemann
- Robert Hossein
- Jean-Loup Hubert
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
- Gilles Jacob
- Just Jaeckin
- Alain Jessua
- Pierre Jolivet
- Kent Jones
- Roger Kahane,
- Nelly Kaplan
- Wong Kar Waï
- Ladislas Kijno
- Harmony Korine
- Jan Kounen
- Diane Kurys
- Emir Kusturica
- John Landis
- Claude Lanzmann
- André Larquié
- Vinciane Lecocq
- Patrice Leconte
- Claude Lelouch
- Gérard Lenne
- David Lynch
- Michael Mann
- François Margolin
- Jean-Pierre Marois
- Tonie Marshall
- Mario Martone
- Nicolas Mauvernay
- Radu Mihaileanu
- Claude Miller
- Mario Monicelli
- Jeanne Moreau
- Sandra Nicolier
- Michel Ocelot
- Alexander Payne
- Richard Pena
- Michele Placido
- Philippe Radault
- Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- Raphael Rebibo
- Yasmina Reza
- Jacques Richard
- Laurence Roulet
- Walter Salles
- Jean-Paul Salomé
- Marc Sandberg
- Jerry Schatzberg
- Julian Schnabel
- Barbet Schroeder
- Ettore Scola
- Martin Scorcese
- Charlotte Silvera
- Abderrahmane Sissako
- Paolo Sorrentino
- Guillaume Stirn
- Tilda Swinton
- Jean-Charles Tacchella
- Radovan Tadic
- Danis Tanovic
- Bertrand Tavernier
- Cécile Telerman
- Alain Terzian
- Pascal Thomas
- Giuseppe Tornatore
- Serge Toubiana
- Nadine Trintignant
- Tom Tykwer
- Alexandre Tylski
- Betrand Van Effenterre
- Wim Wenders