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    Roman Polanski’s ‘An Officer and a Spy’ to Play in U.S., Six Years After Venice Premiere

    David GroveBy David GroveJune 10, 20253 Mins Read
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    Roman Polanski‘s “An Officer and a Spy” is lastly getting a U.S. launch, six years after premiering on the 2019 Venice Movie Competition, the place it received the Grand Jury Prize underneath Lucrecia Martel’s jury. The movie, which received 4 of its 12 César nominations together with Greatest Director in 2020, is now set for a two-week restricted engagement, beginning August 8, at New York Metropolis’s Movie Discussion board.

    Movie Discussion board isn’t dealing with the discharge past showings at its personal venue, IndieWire has discovered, which had been booked by “An Officer and a Spy” producer Alain Goldman. Information of the engagement was included deep into Movie Discussion board’s summer season programming announcement that went out Monday, June 9 (and in addition highlighted by World of Reel).

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    “An Officer and a Spy” is led by Louis Garrel, who portrays French military Captain Alfred Dreyfus after his trial. The politically scandalous Dreyfus affair occurred across the flip of the nineteenth century in France, with Dreyfus banished to Satan’s Island after being discovered responsible of treason, accused of spreading navy secrets and techniques to Germany.

    It was later found that the trial’s verdict was determined upon, and with little proof, on account of Dreyfus’ Jewish religion amid a local weather of antisemitism in France. Within the movie, Jean Dujardin performs the French head of counter-espionage, Georges Picquart, who finally helped reveal Dreyfus’ innocence amid Picquart’s personal arrest and imprisonment for his views. The scandal was first depicted onscreen by Georges Méliès in 1899.

    Polanski’s movie comes with a private bent: The Oscar-winning director, who has been accused and charged of assorted counts of sexual assault and has since exiled himself from Hollywood after quite a few authorized battles, distributed press notes earlier than the premiere of “An Officer and a Spy” at Venice, citing the parallels between his profession and Dreyfus’ legacy. “I can see the identical dedication to disclaim the info and condemn me for issues I’ve not completed,” Polanski wrote. “My work just isn’t remedy. Nevertheless, I need to admit that I’m aware of most of the workings of the equipment of persecution proven within the movie, and that has clearly impressed me.”

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    “An Officer and a Spy” went on to obtain 4 nominations on the European Movie Awards in addition to its 12 César noms — essentially the most that yr on the French movie honors — after a theatrical launch in Europe. The movie hasn’t been seen within the U.S. till now. Polanski’s final film to obtain a U.S. launch was 2017’s “Primarily based on a True Story.” Different assault allegations have adopted the director since he sexually assaulted Samantha Geimer in 1977 when she was 13, main North American distributors to distance themselves from his work. Geimer has since forgiven and even defended Polanski.

    “An Officer and a Spy,” nevertheless, just isn’t even Polanski’s most up-to-date film. His 2023 “The Palace,” additionally a Venice Movie Competition premiere, starred Mickey Rourke and John Cleese and garnered the sort of excorciating evaluations for its eat-the-rich satire that each one however assured the movie would by no means play within the U.S. It was a box-office bomb in Europe.



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