What does the inclusion at the Venice Film Festival of Luc Besson, Roman Polanski and Woody Allen say about the film industry's attitude to controversy, asks Nicholas Barber.
, in which they had not one but two starring roles. Could American cinema's rejection of certain problematic people have as much to do with business as it has with ethics? After all, Polanski is 90 and Allen is 87, and neither Besson nor Depp is the bankable talent he once was. Hollywood can turn its back on them without making any great sacrifice.
Paradoxically, that same feeling − that these once-powerful men are now verging on irrelevance – could help to explain their appearance in Venice. Several journalists who spoke to BBC Culture said that they felt the directors were no longer making films that would be widely seen, their twilight works being shown to a few thousand discerning cinephiles in a rarefied setting.
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