The director has come under renewed fire over the latest claim of sexual assault to emerge against the Oscar-winning director in recent years. "Mr Polanski disputes in the strongest terms this rape accusation," his lawyer Herve Temime told AFP in a statement. The allegations may prove a turning point for French cinema, where the MeToo movement against rape and sexual assault that rocked Hollywood has not prompted as deep a reckoning of abuses in the industry. The Dutch-Belgian actress Sand Van Roy, who has accused French director Luc Besson of rape in a case under investigation, tweeted that she believed Monnier's graphic account. Another woman, identified only as Robin, accused him in August 2017 of sexual assault when she was 16 in 1973.

Source: The Local November 10, 2019 13:27 UTC