The animators of “L'Equipée sauvage” on Europe 1 “didn't ask him anything”, but Frédéric Beigbeder obviously wanted to give his opinion on the Polanski controversy. Guest of the program broadcast this Thursday between 4 and 6 pm on the station, the columnist and novelist took the opportunity to read a post devoted to the Caesars and react to what he perceived as Polanski-bashing . With a privileged target: the mistress of ceremony, Florence Foresti, who had refused to come back on stage when the director of "J'accuse" was awarded and Adèle Haenel had left her seat in anger.
"A pitiful stand-up festival. A pack of freewheeling hyenas (...) Florence Foresti says she is disgusted. She is disgusting".
Frédéric Beigbeder had prepared a vitriolic note on the Caesars. He read it in L'Equipée Sauvage, of which he is a guest between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. pic.twitter.com/VNhOJXKSV3
The evening "which should be a tribute to the cinema has become a pitiful stand-up festival, a pack of freewheeling hyenas", he attacks from the start. Before attacking the humorist and host for one evening, "who made himself known by costumed imitations at Ruquier" and "now takes himself for a great intellectual forced to give his opinion on the good and the wrong ".
"It reproduces the tragedy told by Polanski"
The writer in fact accuses him, in the same way as Adèle Haenel, of "improvising judges" while "the Swiss federal court has ruled that Polanski [accused of sexual relations with a minor aged 13 years in the States - United, in 1977, editor's note] had served his sentence ”. He is referring to the extradition request made by the United States and refused by Switzerland in 2010.
If Florence Foresti said she was "disgusted" by the epilogue of the ceremony, Frédéric Beigbeder thus found her "disgusting". “By reducing J'accuse à la criminalier du director, what she does not do with Ladj Ly, Florence Foresti does not even realize that she is reproducing the injustice of the Dreyfus affair. She condemns 50 years after the facts, considers that new, prescribed and unproven charges are enough to try a man without a lawyer. It reproduces the tragedy that Polanski tells, ”concludes Beigbeder.
A logic that marries that of the Franco-Polish director, who has been criticized for making the parallel between Alfred Dreyfus, victim of the relentless courts and the media, and himself. Before Beigbeder, other personalities took the floor to defend Roman Polanski or castigate the attitude of Adèle Haenel and or Florence Foresti.
"Minuscules", for Lambert Wilson
Fanny Ardant, in particular, said she was "very happy" for Roman Polanski, whom she "loves". “I will follow someone to the guillotine. I don't like the condemnation, ”she added. An opinion shared by former agent Dominique Besnehard, who said he was "very happy". "It is the result of a democratic vote and Polanski is a very great director," he added.
Lambert Wilson, on the other hand, denounced a “sort of court, of public lynching… absolutely abominable”. "I'm talking about people I love very much, but daring to evoke a director in these terms," he lamented, referring to the jokes of Florence Foresti on stage. Talking about Atchoum, showing a size… And what's more, what are we going to learn from the lives of these people compared to the enormity of the Polanski myth? Who are these people ? They're tiny… ”
This time, the organizers of Europe 1 however distanced themselves from the words of Frédéric Beigbeder. "Nice column but which only engages you", reacted Matthieu Noël. "There are elements that I find right in what you are saying, nevertheless we can not possibly not worry about the pain of women," he added. "You can get up in a room and not agree on what's going on," also said Eva Roque.
