Posted on 10/02/2009 12:55:51 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
GENEVA (AFP) – Dutch-born director Jan Kounen has withdrawn his Cannes-premiered movie about Coco Chanel from the Zurich film festival in protest at the arrest of filmmaker Roman Polanski, the organisers said Friday.
Kounen asked the festival to halt the planned first Swiss screening of "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky" on Friday evening, festival spokeswoman Nadja Schildknecht told the Swiss news agency ATS.
The film, screened as the out-of-competition closing movie at the Cannes Festival this year, tells the story of an intense love affair between the glamorous French fashion icon and destitute Russian composer Igor Stravinsky in the 1920s.
Kounen has spent most of his career in France.
Schildknecht said the move was not targeted at the festival but against Switzerland following Polanski's detention in Zurich this week.
The 76 year-old French-Polish fugitive Oscar winner was due to collect a lifetime achievement award at the festival in the Swiss city.
Polanski fled California in 1978 to avoid a jail term after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13 year-old girl.
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He pulled his film? Wow - THAT’LL leave a mark!
That’s because it wasn’t “rape-rape,” according to the thoroughly detestable Whoopi Goldbug.
Pullit
And let another pedophile go down in the dust
Pedophilia.
BTW, Hollyweird protects pedophiles like Porapeski.
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