2023-08-03 17:12:50
The Palace, presented at the Mostra in September, currently has no release date planned in France or the United States.
Imagine a handful of whimsical, even downright neurotic ultra-rich, pampered from evening to morning by a zealous staff whose maniacalness makes you smile. This is not the palme d’or won by the Swedish Ruben Östlund in 2022: the neurotic ultra-rich were on a cruise ship, not in a hotel. It’s not an episode either. The White Lotus, although the HBO series also features the ultra-rich and their staff in a luxury hotel on an island paradise. This is the plot of Roman Polanski’s new film, as we can discover it, in Italian, including a trailer. In Italian only, because the film will be presented at the Venice Film Festival in September. And, a priori, nowhere else.
In this short extract, we discover the happy occupants of a luxury hotel a few days before the transition to the year 2000. While the staff in suits are busy, an occupant – who is reminiscent of Donald Trump – comes to put down his suitcases. Later, Fanny Ardant, curly red hair and a poodle under her arm, worries about the animal, which has been afraid of the snow since it was young. The party promises to be grandiose, balloons and lights suggest an unforgettable evening. The passengers of this strange ship, they fear the famous bug of the year 2000.
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No release date in France
If the film is expected on September 28 in Italy, it does not yet have a release date in France, or elsewhere abroad. Entirely produced by Italians, a first for the filmmaker, the film did not find funding from other countries. The controversy over Roman Polanski, which culminated in the awarding of the César for best director to the filmmaker for his entire career despite accusations of rape and assault, did not help.
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The film therefore has little chance of being distributed in the United States, where the director is still under an international arrest warrant for le viol by Samantha Geimer, 13 years old at the time of the events. Four other women have since accused the Franco-Polish director of rape and sexual assault.
In France, Walk in Krakow, a documentary in which the filmmaker recounts his experience of the ghetto, released on July 5, was shown in only two theaters. And it is no longer showing.
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