Roman Polanski: "With a tweet, you ruin reputations, careers and lives"

Nobody cares what this child rapist thinks. Stop posting this shit here.

He should stop bitching. He was allowed to get away with it for 40+ years. He should consider himself lucky and go the fuck away.

You lived between London, Los Angeles, Gstaad, most often surrounded by women…

I was often in Gstaad, it is the refuge that I found after the murder of Sharon [his wife, actress Sharon Tate, murdered in 1969 in Los Angeles]. I received lots of friends in my chalet, friends and friends of friends… We listened to music, we drank, we chatted, we danced. On holidays, fireworks were fired. It was a whole atmosphere, very cheerful. I had a lot of girlfriends, it's true. Not just overnight stories, not just for sex. Some have remained lifelong friends.

Let's talk about the attacks that target you. Ex-model and actress Valentine Monnier accuses you of having raped her in Gstaad, in 1975. Do you remember her?

Barely. And I obviously have no recollection of what she says, since it is false. I absolutely deny it. Her face in the published photos tells me something, no more. She says that a friend invited her to spend a few days with me, but she doesn't remember who it was! It is easy to accuse when everything has been prescribed for decades, and when one is certain that there can be no legal proceedings to exonerate me.

She also accuses you of having beaten her…

It is delusional! I don't hit women! No doubt the rape accusations are no longer enough sensation, it was necessary to add a layer. She tells [the newspaper “Le Parisien”] that I would have asked her on a chairlift: “Do you want to fuck?” Why in English? She witnesses three of my friends present at the chalet: my assistant Hercules Bellville, Gérard Brach and his wife, Elizabeth. The first two are dead - it's convenient, they can no longer confirm or refute what she says. As for Ms. Brach, the newspaper did not find her. Remain the neighbor opposite, John Bentley, who “does not remember that Valentine spoke to him about rape”, but who has a theory on my alleged “psychological problems with women”, and another mysterious neighbor who wants to remain anonymous - what does he fear? And some even more indirect witnesses whom a court would have rejected but which the newspaper reproduces without reserve. This story is absurd.

Valentine Monnier claims to have been pushed to speak because of the title of your film “J'accuse”. She says that she couldn't bear that you could identify yourself with the fate of Captain Dreyfus. What do you say?

Where did she find this? The journalists asked me the question thirty times, I always replied that I would never identify with Dreyfus, it would be preposterous. The statements were released three days before the film was released, but everything had been prepared in advance. Premeditated. The newspaper is said to have started its pseudo-investigation in September, without ever looking for any source that did not come from my accuser. The goal was to sabotage the film, forgetting that by targeting me this way, my team of 200 people, producer Alain Goldman, all the actors, Jean Dujardin, Grégory Gadebois, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner and the many others actors of the Comédie-Française.

In the press kit of “J'accuse”, the writer Pascal Bruckner speaks of a “neo-feminist McCarthyism” to define our era and you seem to subscribe to it. Is that the case ?

If you can convict someone just with a Tweet, it's worse than McCarthyism, where there was at least a commission of inquiry! It was called “witch hunt”, but even witches in the Middle Ages were entitled to a trial - expeditious, but a trial. Today, we are ruining reputations, careers and lives in a nutshell. In the lot, how many innocent people? There are certainly just accusations, but we no longer seek to distinguish the true from the false. It's frightening.

The #MeToo movement was born from accusations of dozens of women against producer Harvey Weinstein. Were you aware of his behavior in the world of cinema?

I never had any connection with him. I crossed it two or three times. Weinstein had a reputation as a shark in business, but I knew nothing of his stories with women. I was very surprised by the avalanche of accusations, a farandole of familiar faces. I do know, however, that in 2003 Weinstein panicked when "The Pianist" received two awards at the Bafta, the British Oscars, including that for best film. Weinstein, who had two Oscar-nominated films, immediately launched a campaign to prevent the same thing from happening again in Hollywood. He was the one who unearthed my case with Samantha, twenty-six years old and who, at the time, no longer interested anyone, and her press officer was the first to call me a “child rapist ”. The paradox, is that “The pianist” did not get the Oscar for best film, a prize that goes to the producer, but I had that of the best director! Harrison Ford accepted it on my behalf, in front of the whole standing room.

Victims of sexual violence often take years to speak, out of fear or shame. Isn't the freedom of speech for these women useful?

Certainly. But I do not subscribe to a philosophy according to which we cut heads for the good of a few. Then they say it was the price to pay for a just cause. This contradicts the foundations of our civilization in matters of justice, from ancient Greece, and the Magna Carta of 1215, especially its article 39, the famous “Habeas corpus”. The principles of fair trial, presumption of innocence. This is one of the essential elements of “J'accuse”. It is up to the prosecution to prove the guilt. As long as no evidence has been produced, the accused remains innocent. It is the sacred principle of justice and the pillar of democracy, of the rule of law. Now, we dispense with this obligation, we consider that the accusation is worth guilt. We all risk paying dearly for it.

Is that why you were so keen to make a film about the Dreyfus affair? Unconsciously, did you want to talk about injustice?

This is a question that should be asked of my psychiatrist, except that I do not have one. Many elements of this story may seem familiar to me, but, again, I do not take myself for Dreyfus.

Do you consider yourself a victim?

For years, people have been trying to make me a monster. I got used to the slander, my skin has thickened, hardened like a shell. But for my children, for Emmanuelle, it's appalling. It is for them that I speak; for me, I don't even hope to change the course of things anymore. They suffer enormously. They receive insults, threats on social networks. The children hide it to protect me, but I learn it from Emmanuelle - anyway, are there still secrets these days? Of course, I am responsible. In 1977, I committed a fault and it is my family who pays the price almost half a century later. The media threw themselves on me with incredible violence. They seize each new false accusation, even absurd and without substance, because it allows them to revive this story.

What you're talking about is the Samantha Geimer case. A 13-year-old girl who accused you in 1977 of drugging and raping her in Jack Nicholson's villa in Hollywood. You pleaded guilty in this case, then in your autobiography, published in 1984, you wrote that you had been condemned “for having made love”. Do you regret that too?

It was not Samantha but the prosecutor who charged me with these crimes, and I have never pleaded guilty to these charges. I pleaded guilty to an illicit relationship with a minor. Samantha and I alone know what happened that day. I don't want to come back to it any more. Whatever I have done, in any way, is deeply regrettable. I have said it many times, I have written it to Samantha with whom I maintain contact, she knows it. She and her family suffered through my fault, and despite myself it continues. Every time we throw a new lie against me, we come back to it. While originally, the prosecutor proposed an agreement, it was to avoid a trial. His family did not want his name published. But their name came out and since then she has been living in hell. She has been asking for years to close the lawsuits against me. She wrote to the prosecutor several times to explain that the trauma caused to her by the “media circus” is much worse than what I subjected her to. Nobody takes it into account!

Was it not for you the risk of being heavily condemned?

No. At the time, there were several cases of this crime in the district. Nobody went to jail. I am not trying to minimize my act, but to give an idea of ​​the jurisprudence of this period. Over the years and articles, we have pretended to recognize that I am a rapist and, after all this time, we continue to hold that against me. We also repeat that I fled from justice: this is false. I was in Tahiti, on French territory, when judge Laurence Rittenband sentenced me to a 90-day “diagnostic study” which was to constitute my entire sentence. I returned to California to report to Chino Prison, where the authorities released me after 42 days. Without deposit. I was free, I was only waiting for the final audience and the official verdict. My lawyer taught me that, under pressure from the media, the judge betrayed his word and decided to place me in detention under what the Americans call an "indeterminate sentence". And that's when I returned to France. Later, the prosecutor himself said that, in such circumstances, he understood that I left ... What I am saying here are facts, but no one ever tells that!

Do you feel like you've fallen into a trap?

Judge for yourself. The first initiative of Judge Rittenband was to organize a press conference. The judges in the United States are elected, they must take care of their image. Rittenband only thought about it, he was discussing my case at the Hillcrest Club and consulting behind the scenes with another attorney, which is illegal. He used me to advertise. In 2010, one of his successors wrote in an e-mail that if I came back to California, I would go to jail and that he would delay the hearing as long as possible to “turn my back on me”. Here is justice: each magistrate covers the faults of the precedents. The agreement I made with the family of Samantha Geimer is common in America, the judicial system is made so.

Do you understand that from now on the question of a very young girl's consent to a much older man [you were thirty years older than her] is viewed differently?

It depends on the point of view. What do you think of a very young man facing a much older woman? I told you, manners have changed profoundly. We forget how much our society has been freer, more tolerant. Everything I am accused of always goes back to that time. It was almost half a century ago!

It is true that certain behaviors are no longer accepted. Can we not consider this as progress?

How to define what constitutes progress? I doubt that people will be happier now. We can always criticize, see evil everywhere, what seems inconceivable to us today corresponds to what the world just believed in the past. Those who evoke progress are not necessarily the most numerous, perhaps they shout louder than the others ... Let us have a little humility, imagine how we will be judged in fifty years.

You had an adventure with Nastassja Kinski, she had 15…

Our story didn't shock anyone. It was a consented relationship. We stayed friends, we write, she knows Emmanuelle and my children. Besides, why doesn't anyone ask her what she thinks of me? I kept very good relations with most of the actresses who shot for me. It's funny, if you judged me on my films, you could say that I'm a feminist. Think of “Chinatown”, “Tess”, “The girl and death”, “The Venus with the fur”… These are all tributes to women.

Do you feel like a victim of relentlessness?

Rather an easy prey. My problems with the media started long before: when Sharon Tate was murdered. Between his death and the arrest of the assassins (Charles Manson and his accomplices), four months passed. During this period, we wrote so many awful things about Sharon, about our murdered friends, about me. The massacre was so excruciating. A beautiful, famous woman, eight and a half months pregnant - it might have been easier to accept if the victims weren't innocent ... Big newspapers insinuated that I was involved, that Sharon and her friends had succumbed to a witchcraft session, “Newsweek” denounced “the Hollywood subculture” by speaking of “drugs, esotericism and misguided sexual practices” - in other words: they looked for it!

What was your reaction ? Anger, depression?

My life was shattered. Already at that time, I did not like to show myself too much. While the police were carrying out the investigation, around me they said to me: "You must speak." I finally held a press conference, I told about our happiness, our quiet life without debauchery or drugs, except sometimes a friend who smoked a joint ... This is the only sentence that all the media have taken up! This is undoubtedly what will happen with this interview: one or two “little sentences”, only against me. I didn't care, I was obsessed with crime, I was looking for the culprit like crazy, convinced that it was someone around us. With Peter Sellers, we offered a reward, which allowed us to collect testimonies that led to Manson.

Was it a relief for you?

No. I lived under the illusion that once the culprits arrested Sharon would return. And then I realized that no, that my life would never be the same again. Since then, each time there are tragic events, I think of these people who are madly looking for the guilty, and I say to myself: "The poor, they do not know that it is an illusion." We talk about “mourning”. But there is not a day, a precise moment when mourning takes place. The pain goes away, that's all, until it is far enough to allow you to live more or less normally.

How did you survive such a drama? Thanks to the cinema?

I was not able to work right away, but at one point the urge returned. And I needed to earn my bread. “Rosemary's Baby” had worked well, but it had only brought me my salary, about $ 50,000. I was not rich. So I started in “Macbeth” and I didn't stop anymore. I realized that, despite my misfortunes, I was almost happy on a set. And, finally, the meeting with Emmanuelle, in 1984, and the family that we founded; the children, who make work no longer essential, changed everything: I started to organize my filming according to the school holidays.

Your mother died in Auschwitz, your wife was brutally murdered, you are regularly accused of sexual abuse, you have been in prison ... How do you live this chain of trials? Do you see a continuity, a tragic fate?

What is a destiny? Events arise, my life is unusual; it looks like onion peels, one layer reveals another ... My mother was taken in 1941 by the Germans in place of my sister Annette, who must have been 16 years old - she pushed her behind the bed to hide it . My father, I was separated from him in the Krakow ghetto. He returned from the Mauthausen camp after the war. One day, he told me how, at Plaszow camp, the guards had brought all the prisoners, except the children, out in the rain for hours. Then the trucks arrived and the children were brought up there. He remembered the noises, the cries, the crying, the people capsizing in the mud and, meanwhile, the loudspeakers were playing an old German song: “Oh Mein Papa”. One day, I found him in tears in his hotel room. The radio was playing the same song ... How could a nation have sank like this? Everything can happen. What is happening in the world right now, so bizarre, so disturbing, one would never have imagined.

Your country today is France?

Yes. I was born here. As a child, I heard my parents talking about Paris, it was like an ideal. My sister lived there, and as soon as the Polish Communist authorities granted passports to those who had family abroad, I went to Paris, I was 22 years old. Do you know what the address was? 100, rue de Charonne - like Sharon, my life is full of signs…

The Academy of Oscars excluded you in 2018. Does that make you bitter?

It rather makes me smile. For years, they gave me appointments. In 2003, they finally gave me an Oscar, all after the facts for which they see me now. It indicates the change of era.

Do you feel like an outcast in Hollywood?

Worse, a leper.

Your friends at the time, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, no longer support you?

When we call, we talk about our families, about movies, not about that kind of thing.

I thought that it was ruined by being drugged and raped while being only thirteen years old.

But that’s just me.

Will you ever return to the United States?

No. If I did, I would be thrown in jail when there is no reason. And don't forget that all these crazy ideas that I disapprove of come from this country, which has gone crazy. Recently, on my Google page, someone added a third child to me with the first name of the baby Sharon was carrying, with whom she was buried. I had to send letters from a lawyer, threaten a trial to have it withdrawn. Today someone is rewriting your biography, and there is almost nothing you can do ...

Is it your story, your films that spark a certain madness towards you?

I do not know. After “The Vampire Ball” and “Rosemary's Baby”, we pretended that they were autobiographical films, it's strange. Twenty years ago a woman contacted me saying that Sharon was not carrying a boy but a girl, and that it was she, saved by the murderers. Since then, she has sent me letters, gifts, photos. She changed her name from Rosie Blanchard to “Rosie Tate Polanski”. It's delirious: she was born two years after Sharon's death! [He unpacks a box filled with papers, envelopes, some still sealed.] I kept everything, otherwise who could believe me? Two years ago, in Gstaad, a young couple rang at my door. They gave me a letter from Rosie, I didn't know who it was anymore. The young man said to me, “Rosie, your daughter. It's my mother, I'm your grandson! ” Help !

In France, the Civil Society of Authors Producers and Producers [Arp] has “suspended” you and is also considering excluding you. Are you going to defend yourself?

I defend myself with my films. I doubt that within them everyone will agree. Arp, I helped create it, Claude Berri convinced me that it was useful. Today, I don't know anymore.

Actress Adèle Haenel asked that the screening of “J'accuse” be framed by debates on violence against women. What do you think ?

For me, a film should not be framed by anything. I believe in freedom.

By dint of opposition and boycott calls, are you afraid that you will no longer be able to make other films?

The public responds. We have exceeded one million spectators in France, I am happy. Perhaps some will say that it is thanks to the controversy. I leave them to their assumptions. I am interested in science, physics, probability; I know there is no absolute truth, we can only approach it. If the campaigns continue against me, maybe they will end up preventing me from turning. But I am optimistic by nature. not

He needs to STFU.

R14 According to the girl/woman, It was not rape:

"I was examined in the emergency room that night, and I had no injuries,. I was a sexually active teenager, not a child, and just for the record, it was 3 weeks before my 14th birthday which really does not fit into the definition of pedophilia. "

R17 Why STFU, People are attacking him left and right. At least he has the right to speak and defend himself, whatever the real truth is.

R18, she was a 13 year old child, not a “woman.” And just because her asshole wasn’t all torn up doesn’t mean she didn’t suffer emotional trauma. She certainly seems to have.

As for wanting him to STFU, I’m just tired of him being given a platform to complain simply due to the fact that people remain titillated by this story. If I were him, I’d keep making movies, but decline to discuss the Geimer rape. He’s not a victim.

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Roman Polanski DRUGGED, RAPED, and SODOMIZED a child. Instead of bitching and moaning about assault victims speaking up, he should be grateful that people are only saying mean things about pedophiles and sexual deviants like him online.

If you want an idea of what he was like during his 70s peak just scroll down to the last two paragraphs of this profile Rolling Stone did on him when he was making Chinatown. He's a real charmer. Sorry it's not a link but Datalounge wouldn't save it for some reason. Just copy and past it into your address bar.

www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/the-restoration-of-roman-polanski-240989/

[quote] DRUGGED, RAPED, and SODOMIZED a child.

What pageant circuit was SHE in?

I think he should stop talking. It only makes people despise him more.

If he can keep making movies, fine. Whatever. Let those speak for him. But he only keeps putting his foot in his mouth every time he gives an interview.

It’s galling that he seems to expect a parade - -

Fuck this piece of shit pedo.

IDGAF that he survived the Holocaust and lived to rape/fuck pre-teens or that his wife was brutally murdered.

He is a man who Mhas zero remorse, and believes the world owes him something.

We owe you shit, Roman. You’re pissed that you’ve lived your whole life with the fact that you are a rapist and cannot set foot on US soil, without being apprehended by feds and taken into custody, before being extradited to a Los Angeles jail.

What the justice system did to you back in the day was unfair and fucked up, because you served your time, and then they changed the game on you. I understand that injustice, but that drama kept you relevant in the biz, when you would not have been relevant in the Hollywood side of the biz by now, and you know it.

You’re a fucking rapist. GTFOH about ruined lives via twitter. You never gave a fuck about whose lives you ruined, including marrying a woman whom you left ALONE in a weird and shady neighborhood back then, who was carrying your child.

Fuck off, asshole. No sympathy. Sick of people running around, talking shit, and living otherwise charmed lives, while remaining free from living in jail, having a full life, and otherwise enjoying himself, other than setting foot in the US, in order to pick up an award given to an actual fugitive, whom somehow gaslit his rape victim into believing that have anal sex with a sad sack of shit was liberating, empowering, or consensual, at age 14.

GRFOH. Even I wasn’t subjected to that sort of debasement and abuse by my batshit crazy ass mom.

Hint: LOVING parents do NOT DROP OFF THEIR 14YEAR OLDS TO BE ANALY RAPED BY SOME FUCKING ASSHOLE WHO JUST HAD THE MOST HEINOUS CRIME COMMITTED IN ALL OF HOLLYWOOD HISTORY, TAKE PLACE AT HIS HOME, STARRING HIS NOW DEAD WIDE AND UNBORN CHILD.

WHO THE FUCK THINKS IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO TAKE THEIR KID TO THAT GUY’S HOUSE, REGARDLESS OF THE PAY FOR A 14 YEAR OLD CHILD.

CUNTS. ALL OF THEM AND FUCK OFF TO ROMAN POLANSKI AND THIS WOMAN’S CUNT OF A HEARTLESS MOTHER.

No Bitches, this shit is NOT normal, nor acceptable.

R25 He speaks now, because there were recent protests against him and his latest film, He didn't even attend Cesar award ceremony last month because of the aggressive protests.

February 28, 2020

Roman Polanski won’t attend the Cesar Awards for fear of being ‘lynched’

Controversial director Roman Polanski is set to skip the César Awards — considered by many to be the French equivalent to the Oscars — because he’s afraid he’ll be attacked by protesters.

“Fantasies of unhealthy minds are now treated as proven facts,” Polanski, 86, said in a statement on Thursday.

“We know how this evening will unfold already,” Polanski said in a statement to AFP. “Activists are already threatening me with a public lynching, with some saying they are going to protest outside,” the 87-year-old added. “What place can there be in such deplorable conditions for a film about the defence of truth, the fight for justice, blind hate and antisemitism?”

Polanski’s latest film “An Officer and a Spy,” which is about the Dreyfus affair, garnered twelve nominations, including one for best film. It already won Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. However, women’s rights groups are livid that the film was bestowed so many nominations and have vowed to disrupt the ceremony.

France’s culture minister Franck Riester commented on the controversy telling France Info radio: “It’s for each judge to take responsibility. It would be a bad symbol given the necessary awareness we all need to have in the fight against sexual and gender-based violence.”

Roman Polanski Wins Best Director at France’s Cesar Awards, Prompting Walkouts

Roman Polanski has won best director at France’s Cesar awards, prompting numerous walkouts such as nominee Adele Haenel, star of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire.”

“Les Miserables” won best picture as well as the people’s choice prize, best male newcomer (for Alexis Manenti) and best editing.

Neither Polanski nor the cast and crew of “An Officer And A Spy” was on hand at the awards ceremony hosted at the Salle Pleyel in Paris on Friday. Polanski said on Thursday that he would skip the celebration to avoid being “lynched,” but that didn’t prevent a protest by more than 100 people that was staged in front the venue by the advocacy group Osez le Feminisme.

Fuck you, Grandpa Polanski.

Fucking kids isn’t OK, and someone who has experienced trauma should know why it’s not OK.

Fuck you, old man. Grow the fuck up. You’re 86. The world has changed and we don’t like you, cunt

Roman regrets what he did 43 years ago:

"Whatever I have done, in any way, is deeply regrettable. I have said it many times, I have written it to Samantha with whom I maintain contact, she knows it. She and her family suffered through my fault, and despite myself it continues. "

R26 R30 your anger is dangerous. seek help please for whatever trauma you endured.

Where is Whoopi to give her infamous "rape-rape" speech in defense of this pedophile?

Reputations and lives can also be ruined with casual child rape, so there's that.

Emmanuelle Seigner denounces "lies of mad hysterics" and leaves Instagram

"Storm weekend after the Caesars. While the Academy rewarded Roman Polanski for his film "J'Accuse" , notably awarding him the César for best director, reactions multiplied on both sides. In the eye of the storm, it is also the relatives of the 86-year-old filmmaker who had to suffer attacks on social networks.

February 29, 2020, Emmanuelle Seigner had seized her Instagram account to push a rant, denouncing the "lies" around the charges against her husband. As a reminder, he was again accused of rape at the end of 2019 by a woman, Valentine Monnier . “I beg everyone to stop pissing me off. All of this is based on the lies of mad hysterics in search of fame. Thank you for respecting my space, that of my children, my parents and my sisters, ”wrote the 53-year-old actress. His words accompanied an illustration of the Salem witch trial, the largest witch hunt in North American history.

Shortly after her message, Emmanuelle Seigner made the decision to close her Instagram page. Before that, she received the support of anonymous people, personalities and relatives

“Whatever I have done?”He doesn’t know? Why not spell it out? Why be coy? “I’m sorry I drugged and raped a 13 year old.”

[quote]R35 Emmanuelle Seigner denounces "lies of mad hysterics" and leaves Instagram

Did anyone know she was there?

It’s not like she’s some... Sandrine Bonnaire.

I see the Association of Old Pedos is implementing a push back. First Woody and now Polanski. And why are these fuckers always Jews? Epstein, Weinstein

R38 I was not a jew.

Fuck off, R32. Guess what trauma I never endured? Getting sodomized/raped by some old pedo pervert at the age of 14, after my mom dropped me off at his house, and then keeping in touch with my rapist for decades, until he finally convinced me that what he and my mother did to me, wasn’t rape, wasn’t traumatic, and was consensual, even though the law clearly states that giving a 14 year old booze, qualudes, and pot and sodomizing her, is illegal!

You’re a ducking idiot if you believe I’m the one with trauma that needs to be addressed.

I’m not unclear about shit here. Some little asshole in France, or wherever the fuck he resides, is bitching about lives ruined on Twitter, when he literally escaped Nazis, death, WW 2, poverty, hunger, heinous murders in Laurel Canyon, incarceration for raping a kid, and beating the shit out of another one before he subdued her and raped her, decades of bad press, by the skin of his thin hide, and has been lauded and rewarded for his work in the country that has a warrant out for his arrest, yet wants to tell some mother fuckers who got busted for a pound of weed in 1974, serving life in prison, about twitter ruining lives.

This fucker has had THE MOST CHARMED LIFE, outside of a fucking leprechaun or unicorn. And you wanna tell me about getting help for my trauma?

Listen, cunt. Get help for the bullshit tearing and stinking up the place, that resides between your ears, because if you thin that this fucker is going to gaslight the shit out of me, or anyone with an ounce of healthy self esteem, because of movie *magic* and all of that biz, you’ve got your head up further up your own ass than Polanski has his up his own ass.

He is the world’s most fortunate man, and a fucking fool. No one has gotten more second chances than this troll. Not even the cats, that would argue that they never had nine lives, were they still alive to argue the point, yet aren’t, because they dead, but guess who’s not? Roman Polanski.

Everyone had heard his defense. Everyone who gave a shit, looked into it, and did so, fairly, as did I.

There’s no need to continue down this path about how a 14 year old wasn’t drugged and sodomized, because she was, and she was, and legally, consent was not possible. Period, end of.

Any other bullshit he wants to throw out there about remorse or semantics in the head of an avant-garde European, such as himself, should be conversations and musings, between he, himself, and him. If he wants to call the woman he raped as a kid while he nurses bottles of wine, older than himself, IDGAF. But don’t come to tell us all about it, again, with a new spin, because we know, and we’re exceptionally gracious, when that was not required, nor necessary, for a filmmaker who had lived off the fumes of crimes against humanity and his own family, and is still alive and well, with no true complaints, other than people holding him responsible for something he feels he is not responsible for, because he doesn’t actually believe he did anything wrong.

Fuck you, R32. My head is on straight, while standing in your upside down museum of “art”.

And don’t tell me about healing trauma, cunt. You don’t get to gaslight me like this prick gaslit a drugged out CHILD in a jacuzzi, whom he went on to sodomize, whose mother left her to be at the mercy of an entitled jerk, who had also been unfairly victimized in his childhood, and in his adult life, & yet , was a man who clearly had not dealt with his own trauma, and went on to traumatize others, as a result.

R40 I'm sorry for your pain.

I met RP backstage at a Stones gig a few years ago. Whatever else he may be, I found him courteous, funny, mischievous, and very intelligent.

R42, j have no doubt about it. The man is brilliant, yet refuses to admit that what he did was WRONG, and that he is not above the law, just because he’s brilliant.

R41, again. Fuck off. I identify my feelings, not you, you little, troll. And I didn’t write the laws, and at 14, no fully grown, adult man was using my body to break the law, either. And has that happened to me, I only hope that I would have survived it, and I in no way blame the woman who has been the real victim that we KNOW of and that is in the books, and on record, unlike the other young girl who Polanski beat the shit out of and raped in a ski lodge.

I know you’re a troll, R41, but you are as sick as society has rendered you.

Fuck off.

Would you want him babysitting your daughter?

R43 He admitted he made a mistake

"I made a mistake and my family pays the price"

R44 Why would i let any stranger babysit my daughter??!!

R40 R43 Are you Samantha Geimer?!!!

Roman Polanski: "My image began to take shape with the death of Sharon Tate"

Why did you want to do something about the Dreyfus affair?

Great stories tend to become great movies and the Dreyfus affair is exceptional. The story of an unjustly accused man is always fascinating, but it is also a very current issue if we consider the resurgence of anti-Semitism.

What then is the origin of this project?

When I was young, I saw The Life of Émile Zola , by William Dieterle (1937) and the scene in which Captain Dreyfus is degraded struck me greatly. Then I told myself that one day I would make a film about that terrifying story.

Is it true that you were encouraged to shoot this film in English and not in French?

When, seven years ago, I proposed the project to my partners, the idea excited them . But they thought it was essential to do it in English to obtain international funding, especially in the US. It is true that American films set in France are always made in English. In fact, Émile Zola's life is a good example. It was easier to sell them in international markets. But the truth is that I didn't see all those French generals speaking in English. The current audience is more sophisticated and more willing to watch feature films and television series in their original language with subtitles

And how would you describe Colonel Picquart?

Here we see him as a single man, with a lover (who plays Emmanuelle Seigner) married to a senior official. He is portrayed as a social outsider and a "natural anti-Semitic," as people were at the end of the 19th century. However, it is he who involuntarily saves Captain Dreyfus. Picquart is a fascinating and complex character. It is not an active anti-Semite. He does not like Jews, but it is more by tradition than by belief. He is a counter-intelligence officer and, when he discovers that Dreyfus is innocent, he takes the case very seriously and decides to unmask the truth.

Do you think there could be another Dreyfus affair today?

With current technology it would be impossible to condemn a person based on a faulty writing analysis. And, of course, not in the army, since the mentality has changed. Today we are allowed to criticize everything, including the army, while at that time its power was unlimited. But a similar case may occur. We have all the ingredients to make it happen: false accusations, lousy court proceedings, corrupt judges and, above all, "social networks" that condemn without a fair trial or without the right to appeal.

Has this film been a kind of catharsis for you?

No, I don't work like that. My job is not a therapy. But I recognize that I am familiar with many of the mechanisms of the chase apparatus that appear on the tape. And it is true that they have inspired me.

Did the persecution you suffer start with Sharon Tate?

The way people see me, my "image," began to take shape with Sharon's death. When it happened and despite the fact that I was going through a horrible time, the press seized the tragedy. He did not know what to do with it and reported in the most despicable way. Among other things, they claimed that I was one of those responsible for his murder. The investigation lasted several months until the police found the real killers, Charles Manson and his "family." But all that keeps chasing me. Everything and nothing. It's like a snowball that gets bigger every season. Stupid stories of women I have not seen in my life and who accuse me of things that supposedly happened more than half a century ago.

Don't you want to fight back?

Why? It's like fighting windmills.

You know, it’s interesting that even reading an interview with him is a turnoff.

I guess maybe they’re interested in what he has to say in Europe. But it doesn’t fly here in the U.S.

R49 = Faye Dunaway

R51 Hahaaa, Roman and Faye couldn't stand each other.

What bothers me so about this particular story is the following: People get upset, when you remind them that a 13-14 yo was harmed and affected for her entire life, as a result of this scandal. And yes, I understand perfectly well what was done to Polanski as a result of this case, and the largest piece of shit in this entire scenario, is the man that decided to fuck over Polanski’s done deal, in order to prompt Polanski to flee, and consequently, have this forever affect the life of a victim, who was a KID.

People assume that hysterical Frauen are after Polanski. Not so. And btw, I also DO understand why he fled, and why he did so, particularly because of his own life experiences that were undoubtedly tragic, no question. He too, was fucked over.

All of the above stated, it is my opinion that his life and career took a very small hit, and both eventually not only rebounded, but flourished.

What’s done is done. Why doesn’t he come back to the states, and finish it? End this. But he won’t. And that doesn’t make him stupid or immoral, however, it makes him a helluva lot luckier than Bill Cosby, because right now, Bill is in some cell, while Roman is giving out interviews, advising people that Tweets ruin lives. Yes, they can, they have, and they do. But so do bad decisions that got them blasted on Twitter. Roman looks after Roman. To pretend otherwise, is the height of hypocrisy.

Two rapists. An African American, A Jew who survived and escaped Poland during WW2. Both men had the odds lined up against them, all the way down the line. The black man spends his life making people laugh, and makes a lot of money. The Jewish one, spends his life making people scared, or making people sad, or making people watch films they love.

Both face major setbacks in their lives, losing children who were shot in cold blood, to suicide, and unborn child, and a wife, to the most notorious crimes EVER committed in that century, other than the crimes committed in WW 2 by the Nazis. Both men are beloved by their town. Hollywood. We look after our own.

As of today, one is in Europe, admits what he did is wrong verbally, yet refuses to set foot in America, and settle the legal consequences of his crimes, and has continued success in his career, while the other one sits in jail, facing at least some mother fucking justice.

Both into qualudes and rape. Both unable to process in their minds, that just because everyone else was doing it, it wasn’t OK, and that just because no one died, and got paid some compensation for their “trouble”, it does not even up the score or reset some infractions ledger.

Children and women, should not be made to engage in sexual activity that renders them incapable of complete physical and mental awareness and acuity, where they pass out from drugs, and don’t even remember that they were sexually assaulted, however, were. That’s just not OK. And the problem with both Cosby and Polanski, is that they cannot overcome their justifications behind it all.

It’s sad. Because out of these two, I wager Polanski can access reality a lot quicker than Cosby, and I bet he knows he was wrong, and for sure won’t set foot here, because he knows that he will face the consequences which Cosby could not fly away from.

Men. Powerful men. Why must you pursue children and incapacitated women? Why must they carry the burden of your inability to lack an ounce of power, and not be in control of EVERYTHING and EVERYONE?

Rape is about control. Escaping justice and living an entire life on the lamb is about control. And people were willing to give it to these guys any way they wanted it, but that was not enough, and here we are. Two old geezers, that have yet to accept that their names are not “God”, “Master”, “Judge”, etc.

later on the girl denied it was rape and begged for his forgiveness tht all the bad press caused him, her momma pushed her into this, not roman, the greatest director of his generation.

The film is a huge hit in Europe, where a film can be objectively viewed on its merits, not paprazzi crap that stirs up b.s.

R53, Jews are the most powerful and prominent group in the world. Polanski didnt have any odds lined up against him. Stop lying.

We suffer from a lack of rhetoric. Why the fuck statements like this don't get responses in kind: "With a rape, you ruin lives. For one moment of want, you change forever what a woman knows as her authority over her own body. A child, in this case."

This is someone who still thinks he did nothing wrong. His death will be a celebration.

With a rape, you ruin a life

[quote]R54 later on the girl denied it was rape and begged for his forgiveness tht all the bad press caused him, her momma pushed her into this, not roman, the greatest director of his generation.

That’s not exactly what Ms. Geimer’s come to say. Over time she chose to forgive Polanski because she wanted to get on with her life without resentment... not because what she thinks he did was A-Okay.

I agree his is a great director. He is also disturbed.

Emmanuelle looks like crap. Enabling a pedo is bad for a girl’s complexion.

Just ask Angelica Huston.

R53 Well said.

we need a agree with and disagree with button....

How is Polanski still a thing? DL is really boring.

I heard he still has a big thick cock and cute round ass...…

nuff said