AN OFFICER AND A SPY A FILM ON POLANSKI OR ON ANTISEMITISM ?

Valentine Monnier, a 63-year-old photographer and actress, accuses Roman Polanski of raping her in 1975.

In a long gallery, the photographer explains indeed to have been beaten and raped by Roman Polanski in Switzerland, in 1975 when she was 18 years old.

This shocking testimony has given a new impetus to an outcry of several decades, since it would be the 12th alleged victim of Emmanuelle Seigner's husband to break the silence.

In the aftermath of Adèle Haenel's much-talked-about speech in another case, this accusation (which the director "strongly contests" through his lawyer) has seriously questioned the promotion of the film. .

Forty activists also prevented the preview from being held, just before the release of the film.

In this sensitive context, how to talk about the film that won the Grand Prix du jury at the Venice Film Festival ?

Can we still look at Roman Polanski's works just for what they are: movies ?

An exercise all the more difficult for some that the last feature film of the director, J'accuse, in theaters November 13, attacks the Dreyfus affair and a parallel between the fate of the Jewish captain, victim of A miscarriage of justice, and that of the filmmaker, still being prosecuted in the United States for raping a 13-year-old girl more than forty years ago, would not be a coincidence.

Recalling for others that it is essentially a film, no doubt, a film imposing enough, what is more, a film on the case Dreyfus a film on anti-Semitism..