The 80th Venice Film Festival could not have gone worse for Roman Polanski and his latest film “The Palace.”
Although the shunned filmmaker could not attend the festival, due to extradition issues, he must have really felt all the hate that “The Palace” garnered on the Lido. It was nasty.
Some are saying that “The Palace,” which still has no distribution in the U.S, France, and the U.K, will be the last time the 90-year-old Polanski will be able to find funding for a film. It’s turned into a disaster of the highest order.
Reviews for “The Palace” speak for themselves. It still has a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, with 13 reviews tallied, and average score of 2.8/10. Yikes. This is coming off Polanski’s 2019 triumph at Venice, “J’Accuse,” which won the Grand Jury Prize that year.