“What’s wrong with that?” He did not burn the school.” Woody Allen reacts to the forced kiss of Luis Rubiales.

Woody Allen spoke for a long time about the incident of the forced kiss of Luis Rubiales. The 87-year-old American director is thus unequivocal and expresses his support to the head of the Spanish Football Federation. The latter is currently suspended after shockingly kissing soccer player Jenny Hermoso following the team’s World Cup win.

“It’s hard to imagine that someone could lose their job and face such a fine for kissing in public,” says the director. Manhattan in an interview with a Spanish daily El Mundo on the occasion of the premiere of his film A stroke of luck was presented at the Venice Film Festival.

Woody Allen, who is accused of sexual assault, continues his plea. “Kissing this football player was wrong, but he didn’t burn down the school. He did not hide and kissed her in the dark alley. He didn’t rape her, it was just a kiss and she was a girlfriend. What’s wrong with that?”

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On the outskirts of Hollywood

Multi-award-winning Woody Allen has seen almost the entire profession turn his back on him in the US after Dylan Farrow, the daughter he adopted with ex-wife Mia Farrow, was accused of sexual assault and rape.

But unlike Roman Polanski, whose last film was also presented in Venice in his absence and who has been on the run from American justice for forty years after being convicted of illicit sex with a minor, the director;Annie Hall and: Match Point: not troubled or pursued by the courts. No sexual assault investigation against him has ever been successful.

However, he lived for several years on the outskirts of Hollywood and the 7th art. He is hardly seen in the US anymore and has become a symbol of sexual violence for some. There is no more success in theaters. His arrival this Monday, September 4th, in Venice for an out-of-competition presentation; A stroke of luck, probably sounds like revenge. The director’s fiftieth film was shot in France, starring French actors Lou de Laage, Melville Poupaud, Nils Schneider and Valérie Lemercier.

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