Today, Swiss spells “Judas” as the nation’s authorities arrest Polanski on his 31-year-old US warrant. Polanski was to receive a lifetime achievement award during a retrospective of his work at the Zurich Film Festival. Instead, he was taken into custody as soon as his feet touched Swiss soil. Whatever happened to neutrality…especially for art’s sake?
Read the full story at Reuters.
I’m thinking that Mr. Polanski might win an Oscar next year for
The Ghost Writer.