CANNES, France — The Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda won the Palme d’Or at the 71st Cannes Film Festival for his superb “Shoplifters,” about a family of thieves and throwaways living on the margins in Japan. “In 1997, I was raped by Harvey Weinstein here at Cannes. This festival was his hunting ground,” Ms. Argento said. She predicted he would never again be welcomed here by a film community that once embraced and enabled him. The fierce, unwavering Ms. Argento added that there were those in the auditorium who needed to be held accountable for their conduct toward women.

Source: New York Times May 19, 2018 20:03 UTC