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Woody Allen film premiere descends into chaos as protesters chant ‘no rape culture’ and tussle with security-Kitty Chrisp-Entertainment – Metro
Coup de chance is the director’s 50th film.
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Woody Allen’s 50th film was met with a five minute standing ovation – and lots of protesters (Picture: EPA/Getty Images)
Woody Allen’s big Venice Film Festival moment descended into chaos when protesters crashed his premiere.
The 87-year-old director took to the red carpet to celebrate the first showing of his 50th film, Coup de chance (Stroke of Luck) which was met with a five-minute standing ovation.
His 52-year-old wife Soon-Yi Previn – who is the adopted daughter of his ex-partner Mia Farrow – was said to be by his side as protesters chanted ‘no rape culture.’
Footage showed security forcing themselves in-between the protesting crowd and the red carpet, as the chanters jostled to stand their ground.
Allen’s invitation to attend the prestigious festival amassed criticism due to sexual abuse allegations which have amounted against him over the years.
Notably, the director has been accused of sexually abusing his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow when she was as young as seven, allegations of which featured in the HBO documentary Allen v Farrow.
The director was accompanied by his wife Soon-Yi Previn, who is the adoptive daughter of his ex-partner Mia Farrow (Picture: Getty Images)
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The Annie Hall director denies the claims.
Aside from his personal life, a number of actresses have spoken out against him. Kate Winslet said she had ‘regrets’ about working with him, while Hayley Atwell spoke about her ‘bizarre’ on-set experience and ‘stood in solidarity with his daughter’.
However, in a recent interview with Variety, Allen insisted ‘not one [woman] had ever complained and there’s nothing to complain about’ when it comes to his films.
Protesters gathered at Venice Film Festival and tussled with security (Picture: EPA)
They chanted ‘no rape culture’ (Picture: REUTERS)
The filmmaker also dubbed cancel culture as ‘silly,’ and insisted he doesn’t know ‘what it means to be cancelled’.
‘I don’t know what it means to be cancelled. I know that over the years everything has been the same for me. I make my movies,’ he said.
Addressing the allegations made against him about Dylan, Allen previously said: ‘Nothing that I ever did with Dylan in my life could be misconstrued as that.’
Allen became a parental figure to Dylan when her mother Mia Farrow adopted her.
Dylan first made the allegations in 1992 and wrote an open letter to Allen in The New York Times’ website, though no charges have been brought against him.
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