A group of nine feminist associations has called upon voting members of France’s Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma not to mark their César Awards ballots for Roman Polanski’s An Officer And…
. The Dreyfus Affair drama has a leading 12 nominations for the prizes which will be handed out on February 28 in Paris.
Such orgs as Osez le Feminisme, the Feminist Collective Against Rape, the International Association of Victims of Incest and Tolerance Zero signed an open letter published in dailyThe groups vowed to protest the César ceremony in order to “say no to the celebration of a rapist who silences his victims.” Polanski has for decades lived in France after fleeing the United States on the eve of final sentencing in a statutory rape case.
It also called for calm surrounding the César ceremony, though that is clearly not going to be the case. To the voting members, the women’s groups say, “In 2020, do not give reason to a sexist Césars Academy that still renders women invisible for the benefit of their aggressors.”Read More About:
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