Venice film festival opens under cloud of controversy vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
A glittering array of A-listers swept up the red carpet as the Venice film festival opened in a flurry celebrity Wednesday, but the 11-day celebration of cinema is battling scandal over the inclusion of director Roman Polanski.
Campaigners have accused the festival of being out of touch in the era of #MeToo by including Polanski. It is also presenting a new film in a sidebar event from director Nate Parker, who was embroiled in a rape trial while still at university. Martel later released a statement through the festival saying that she had been misunderstood and stressed that she was not against the film being in competition.
Among the other potential Oscar hopefuls at the festival, US director Steven Soderbergh’s take on the Panama Papers investigation, “The Laundromat”, is set to premier, while Brad Pitt plays an astronaut in James Gray’s highly anticipated sci-fi drama “Ad Astra”. Polanski’s historical thriller about the persecution of the French Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus, “An Officer and a Spy”, is due to premier Friday.
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