Woody Allen responds 'I’m just not equipped mentally to have any deep insights on those things' when asked about calls for a 'boycott' and the MeToo movement at a press conference in San Sebastian.
Mediapro chief Jaume Roures unveiled Tuesday that his studio and FilmNation will be handling international distribution. against Amazon Studios for breach of contract, brought about when the studio moved to end its multi-film agreement with the director amid a renewed outcry over sexual abuse allegations against him. Allen denies the allegations.
Added Allen: "I don’t think of political movements or social movements. I’m just not equipped mentally to have any deep insights on those things. I deal mostly with human relations and people and comedy. And as long as I stay focused, I don’t think I’ll ever retire. I’ll probably die in the midst of setting up a film shot one day on a set making a movie."
She added: "While I think there’s a lot of good that’s coming out of all these different movements, I just feel it’s really important that people really take a look at every situation and really make up their own minds about it." Allen's new film focuses on an American couple traveling to the San Sebastian International Film Festival, where the two are enamored with the event, the town and the country. She falls for a brilliant French director, while he is smitten by a beautiful local Spaniard. Rifkin is the name of one of the main characters in the story.You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. It also marks Allen’s fourth collaboration with cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.
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