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New Roman Polanski Film Gets Secret Presentation, U.S. Buyers Don't Show Up — Cannes

May 20, 2019 Jordan Ruimy
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Shame on whoever didn’t send me an email invitation that read “Confidential” in the subject line today.

All kidding aside, If you did get that email, chances are it was a request for buyers to come and catch a first glimpse at Roman Polanski's latest film, “An Officer and a Spy.”

The film’s launch to buyers took place at Le Studio just off the Croisette, according to THR. A packed house attended the show with French star, Jean Dujardin (The Artist).

The film is about Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French-Jewish solider wrongly accused of spying for the Germans in Paris in the 1890s.

THR goes on:

“International buyers were impressed by what appeared to be the film's epic scale despite a $25 million budget. One European distribution executive said he would have no qualms about releasing a Polanski film, despite the fact that the director, who fled the U.S. after admitting to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977, has become a pariah in Hollywood (his Academy membership was revoked in the wake of the #MeToo era).”

Of note: "No interest," the buyer says. Another U.S. buyer also ignored the invite. "It's just not possible to release that film in the U.S. right now," that executive explains.

Tags Roman Polanski, New Movie, Cannes, Jean Dujardin, Alfred Dreyfus, THR
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