(ANSA) - NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18 - Shock accusations in the new serial documentary "Allen vs. Farrow" cast a disturbing light on the figure and artistic production of WoodyAllen.
According to advances from the "Hollywood Reporter", the series airing Sunday on HBO claims that the 85-year-old director had a sexual relationship with his current wife Soon-Yi Previn when she was still in high school and he was a mature forty.
Just like in the plot of "Manhattan", the 1979 film starring Mariel Hemingway that the documentary's authors, Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, pass under the microscope as a demonstration of the director's obsession to the limit of fetishism for teenage girls.
"There is no question that Allen is a very good filmmaker. But one thing about his films that has often made me uncomfortable, and particularly with 'Manhattan', is the celebration of a grown man's relationship with a teenager, without any analysis of the power structure behind it. I was so uncomfortable that when 'Manhattan' came out in theaters, I didn't go to see it, "Dick told The Washington Post.
The documentary revisits with the eyes of #MeToo the notions of 1992, when Mia Farrow discovered the partner's relationship with her adopted daughter Soon-Yi, then college student, and then, in the midst of a fierce battle for the custody of the offspring, accused the director of having molested Dylan, the seven-year-old girl the couple had jointly adopted.
This is the first time Mia has spoken publicly about her ex-partner.
In the documentary, in addition to the now 35-year-old Dylan, also appears the stepbrother Ronan who initially tried to convince his sister not to participate.
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