Roman Polanksi's films continue to be financed in the era of #MeToo

Apparently freed from the rise of the Me Too movement, the convicted rapist and children's director Roman Polanski will start shooting a new film next month about a man wrongly accused of spying.

"J Accuse," the first film on which Polanski began working since the launch of the Me Too movement against Hollywood predators and the media landscape, is funded by French production company Legende Films, said the studio at the Hollywood Reporter. Friday.

Polanski even managed to convince Jean Dujardin, winner of the Oscars, to face Louis Garrel while Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the real French Jewish soldier wrongly accused of espionage for the Germans in the 1890s.

The decision of the Franco-Polish director to create a film about a man wrongly accused, jailed for five years and then exonerated will not fail to frown.

In 1977, Polanski pleaded guilty to the official rape of a 13-year-old girl and served 42 days in prison as part of a plea agreement. When he learned that a judge was planning to revoke his agreement, he escaped to Paris and has remained there since then.

While the United States tried to extradite him several times, Polanski was not immune to the recent repercussions of the Me Too movement, which he described in May as mass hysteria from time to time in society. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has expelled him – even though he still retains the Oscar that he awarded to the academy in 2003 for "The Pianist."

The news of the Polanski film comes the same day the Senate Judiciary Committee decided to send Brett Kavanaugh's candidacy to the Supreme Court, even though many women have reported sexual misconduct.