“The Palace’, Polanski’s latest film, which “no one wanted”, in theaters on May 15. This closed-door sketch comedy filmed in Gstaad (Switzerland) in a luxury hotel on New Year's Eve 2000, stars Oliver Masucci, Fanny Ardant, John Cleese and Mickey Rourke.

It will therefore be released the day after the opening of the Cannes Film Festival. And the decision which will be rendered by the Paris court in the defamation trial, brought against the director by Charlotte Lewis, who accuses him of rape.