Polanski’s Perfectly Timely J’accuse

Polanski’s Perfectly Timely J’accuse

Roman Polanski’s take on the Alfred Dreyfus Affair in 1894, in which Dreyfus, an army captain, was accused of passing secrets to Germany, convicted, and then eventually acquitted, raises the specter of France’s anti-Jewish bigotry.

An Officer and a Spy — Roman Polanski [Review]

While at 5’5” both he and Woody Allen are the same height, Roman Polanski stands tallest on the Mount Rushmore of reviled living filmmakers. As conversation about abuses of power and sexual manipulation in the film industry became normalized in the mid-2010s, Polanski was first in line for the firing squad, and rightfully so. Since [...] The post An Officer and a Spy — Roman Polanski [Review] appeared first on In Review Online.

Roman Polanski’s Dreyfus Affair Movie ‘An Officer and a Spy’ Finally Opens in the US

Jean Dujardin, left, as Georges Picquart and Louis Garrel as Alfred Dreyfus star in Roman Polanski’s “An Officer and a Spy.” (Photo credit: IMDB via JTA) Rebecca Kobrin and Maurice Samuels | JTA Over 130 years after he stood trial for espionage, Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus made headlines last month when French President Emmanuel Macron declared July 12 the date the country would remember him and the antisemitism that led to his imprisonment. T…