“Allen v. Farrow »arrives on OCS: 5 highlights of the shock docu against Woody Allen

For sure.

Faced with “Allen v.

Farrow ”, the shocking documentary in four episodes produced by the American channel HBO and broadcast in France on OCS from this Monday, March 1 (two episodes, then the third on March 8 and the last on March 15), those who have already released Woody Allen will be comforted in their rejection.

Those who still support him will feel… uncomfortable.

Because directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, big names several times nominated at the Oscars, have built a war machine, unearthing countless archives and testimonies, all of them against the filmmaker accused of sexual abuse by his daughter Dylan for nearly thirty years.

No one in the Allen Clan agreed to participate in this exciting, often disturbing film that plunges into the heart of a family apocalypse.

In 1992, Mia Farrow discovers that her companion Woody Allen is having an affair with Soon-Yi, her eldest daughter, adopted during a previous union.

Shortly thereafter, the filmmaker was accused by six-year-old Dylan of sexual assault.

American justice has not brought any criminal charges against him, but the #MeToo movement has revived the case.

Here are five highlights from those grueling four hours.

1. Dylan accuses Woody.

We discover Dylan Farrow, 35 years old, ultra-present on the screen, always devoured by this past where everything changed, she who says to have venerated her father until this fatal year 1992. She reiterates her accusations of sexual abuse, that the filmmaker has always denied, claiming that Mia Farrow took revenge on him by instrumentalizing her daughter at an easily influenced age.

The series unveils the video recording of Dylan very small describing his assault in front of a psychiatrist, but also the images filmed at this time by Mia Farrow, who pushed Dylan to repeat this testimony in front of his own camera.

2. The phone conversations between Woody and Mia.

It's one of the most chilling moments in the documentary series.

Woody Allen, once cleared of charges of sexual abuse by the courts, counterattacked in 1993 by seeking custody of his three children, including Dylan.

Just before the trial, which will make the daily headlines of the American media, Mia Farrow and her former companion are called, she records.

The tapes are shown in one of the episodes.

No new elements, but the immense coldness that emanates from the filmmaker will disturb his fans.

A lawsuit he lost.

3. The inconsistencies of the American authorities.

The film leans on each fragility of the case by conducting its own investigation.

How did Woody Allen manage to hold a press conference on the steps of the hospital which had just concluded his innocence, when the conclusions of these early childhood specialists had not yet reached the prosecutor from Connecticut, who disagreed?

Documentary filmmakers, like lawyers, point to other child sexual abuse experts who support Mia Farrow.

Are they therefore more legitimate?

There remains a malaise, linked to the absence of material elements and to jurisdictions which are pulling each other in the paws.

4. Happiness before disaster.

We had never seen the family films of the filmmaker and the actress, who shot twelve feature films together before tearing themselves apart.

Mia Farrow told the show's writers all of the videos she dedicated to her many children, seven when she met Woody, then quickly nine.

This filmed family album is heartbreaking in that it shows peaceful bliss, Dylan laughing out loud with his father in front of his mother's camera, before the blast.

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Woody Allen hits back in his autobiography

5. Blow for blow.

Woody Allen published in 2020 his autobiography, "By the way", recalling that Soon-Yi and his brother Moses, adopted son of the director and Mia Farrow, accused their mother of violence.

This series, fully centered around Dylan, Mia and Ronan Farrow, brother of Dylan who is also the journalist behind the #MeToo movement, comes across as a scathing response in a never-ending fight.