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Its ten past 2 p.m. on a hot afternoon at the Venice Film Festival.
In 2018,the Academythat awarded him the 2002 Oscar for Best Director expelled him.
TheOfficerfilm team, including cast member Emmanuelle Seigner, Polanskis third wife, graciously accept a warm reception.
), is the first to the mic.
This is a film festival, not a moral trial, he says.
Strangely, given that Barbareschi has essentially just muzzled them, the journalists applaud.
After exactly the 30 advertised minutes, the press conference is over, a great deal left unsaid.
(The film received a standing ovation when it finally screened for competition.)
The producers were mollified and Martel attended the press screening of the film this morning instead.
