Woody Allen's French distributor, Rainy Day in New York

Roger Friedman of Showbiz411 is reporting that Woody Allen's French distributor MARS is trying to make a deal to distribute Rainy Day In New York.

The movie, starring Timothee Chalamet, Jude Law, Rebecca Hall, and Elle Fanning among others, has been sidelined by Allen’s problems with Amazon. Ready for release, “Rainy Day” got caught in the #MeToo movement– inaccurately. The result was Amazon deciding unilaterally not to release the newest film by one of our greatest auteurs. 

The article goes on to quote Stephane Célérier who runs MARS. Célérier wrote an essay in a French magazine defending Allen:

 He wrote: “I have been shocked by the wave of hate provoked by the Woody Allen affair, particularly in the United States and on the social networks, and by the lack of rigor by certain media outlets and the pack which condemns without looking into the full facts.”

Célérier said it was time “to examine the facts with attention…That is the approach I have decided to take. Simply to get to the bottom of the truth, to understand whether I’ve been working closely with a paedophile all these years.”

“He has always in my eyes been a man of incredible intelligence as well as discreet and courteous. But his talent and his effervescent creativity don’t make a saint. The admiration I have for the man and the cineaste is real but have not influenced the steps I have taken to ask questions.”

“It seems clear to me that Woody Allen should not be classified in the same category as the sexual predators recently denounced by Hollywood and end his days as a pariah whose work should be burned,” he wrote.

“But it seems complicated today, impossible even, to stand-up for Woody Allen’s innocence without prompting violent reactions and accusations that I am sacrificing the rights of women for economic gain.”   

Friedman adds:

We can debate the whole Woody-Mia saga forever. But the facts are, Woody was cleared of everything. Nothing happened. Mia Farrow has waged a PR war with him since 1992. Then her son with Woody, Ronan Farrow, who was 5 years old at the time, picked up the baton. He has been hypnotized by his mother into believing everything she says. He probably thinks Frank Sinatra is his father.

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One last thing: every single #MeToo perpetrator has been accused by multiple victims. The only case to ever follow Woody is just this one, which was alleged during a custody battle. That’s it. And meanwhile, Mia Farrow’s brother, John, continues to serve time in a Maryland prison, convicted of actual child molestation. Mia has never addressed that subject.

Lately, Ronan's argument against Allen has been that there was no evidence against Harvey Weinstein, either. That's now his standard of proof.

Soon-yi Previn and Moses Farrow have spoken and written about the abuse they suffered at the hands of Mia Farrow long before Ronan Farrow was even born. He knows absolutely nothing about it, but he still feels free to attack them for it.

I don't know how much of this is backfiring on Mia Farrow. She and her favorite white children haven't slowed Woody Allen down. There was a momentary pause in his career before the deal to make a movie in Spain this summer, but it's getting far more publicity for than he would have gotten otherwise.

Mia's convicted pedophile brother has come up so often, why hasn't she said anything about it? She wasn't estranged from him. He visited her and her children. Was he ever alone with them? Most of them weren't related to him by birth. Has Mia shown any concern about that?

We already knew she was a homewrecker. Now she's been exposed as a child abuser.