Roman Polanski posed for a photo with the woman he raped

Surprise.

The image in which Samantha Geimer, who was raped by

at the age of 13 , smiles in the present, with the director of

and

is going around the world.

And the one who went up to social networks was her, on her Instagram. 

These days Roman Polanski is trying to find a distributor for

: a film shot in Italy with an international cast: Fanny Ardant, John Cleese and Mickey Rourke.

The Cannes Film Festival refused to screen the film for fear of controversy, and now there is the possibility that it will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

Director Roman Polanski in his last appearance at the Cannes Film Festival, when he presented "Based on a True Story" in May 2017. AP Photo

Meanwhile, the figure of the controversial filmmaker has been surrounded by other surprising twists.

conversation and photo

magazine recently

published a conversation between Polanski's wife, actress

(with whom he filmed

, among others), and one of his victims, actress and model Samantha Geimer.

Geimer was the teenager that Polanski raped in 1977, when she was 13 years old.

Faced with the threat of imprisonment, Polanski fled the US, and since then he has not set foot on American soil.

Geimer was, at the time, the spearhead of the accusations against Polanski - four other women have claimed that the director abused them when they were minors.

But with the passage of time she has been reconciling with him.

Even confirming that she was raped, she Geimer assured the media that Polanski had apologized to her through a letter, and that what she suffered the most from her was her media harassment.

A feminist activist places a sign with a play on words that combines the word rape with the name of the filmmaker, prior to the delivery of the César awards, in 2020. Photo AFP

In the conversation with Seigner, he defended him again.

And, in collusion with the protagonist of

, he showed his rejection of the #MeToo movement that has Polanski in its crosshairs.

"I don't see what's feminist about claiming victimhood," he said, in order to try to qualify what has happened with the director these years.

“Let's be very clear, what happened with Polanski was never a big problem for me.

I didn't even know it was illegal, that someone could be arrested for it."

Emmanuelle Seigner holds the Grand Jury Prize for the Roman Polanski film 'J'Accuse', in Venice 2019. Photo EFE

“I was fine, I'm still fine, and for this matter to escalate into something bigger weighs heavily on me.

Constantly having to repeat that it wasn't such a big deal is exhausting,” she said.

This interview has been refloated after a publication by Geimer on his Instagram profile, where he appears hugging Polanski.

It seems that there was reconciliation, although it is hard to believe.

Polanski was the first celebrity to be accused of raping a minor, at the home of his friend and star of

, Jack Nicholson.

The Paris-born filmmaker who spent his childhood in Poland fled the United States in 1978 after pleading guilty to having illegal sex with a 13-year-old girl.

And, you'll remember, he couldn't be at the Oscars twenty years ago, when the Academy awarded him best director for

.

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