• Wife Soon-Yi Previn: the torture that marked Woody Allen's wife

This Friday, 'Rifkin's festival', Woody Allen's latest film, produced by the independence magnate

Jaume Roures,

hits theaters

.

The film, which opened the last edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival, is set in Zinemaldia itself and tells the story of a film teacher (Wallace Shawn) who attends the contest and falls in love with a doctor (whom gives life to

Elena Anaya

), while his wife (Gina Gershon) flirts with a handsome French filmmaker (Louis Garrel).

Allen's return to our country 12 years after 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' (also produced by Roures and which earned

Penélope Cruz

an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress) is surrounded by a monumental controversy on account of the boycott campaign against him. director of 'Manhattan' for the accusations of sexual abuse of his adopted daughter,

Dylan Farrow

, when she was an eight-year-old girl.

The accusations, which have been proven false on numerous occasions, have been repeatedly aired by Allen's own son,

Ronan Farrow

, the result of his relationship with actress

Mia Farrow

, with whom he also adopted Dylan.

A scandal that began to rage the moment Woody left Mia for

Soon-Yi Previn

, who Farrow had previously adopted during his marriage to pianist André Previn.

In 'About Nothing', the memoir written by Allen and published this spring after many difficulties (the Hachette publishing house resigned to print it after Ronan threatened a boycott of the French publisher), the filmmaker reaffirmed himself in what she has been repeating since 1992: that

Mia Farrow is an "unbalanced", "manipulative" and "liar"

and that she has never been a pedophile: "It is false that I have never been interested in minors. Almost none of my lovers have been younger than me. "

Ronan, who received the Pulitzer Prize for his investigations into the #MeToo that landed Harvey Weinstein in jail, has wanted to link his father's case to this latest feminist movement in

Hollywood

.

He

has been divided between those who grant Dylan's accusations credibility

(and, consequently, express regret for having worked with Allen) and those who defend the author of 'Zelig'.

All this led to the suspension of the premiere of her latest film, 'A rainy day in New York', which the Amazon film division gave up releasing due to controversy.

In any case, the uproar has shifted the focus on the

artistic decline

of Allen, who is still determined to make a movie a year about to turn 85 (he will do so at the end of November).

In 'Rifkin's festival', which aims to be a tribute to his film idols (Buñuel, Bergman, Fellini),

Woody achieves the impossible: to make San Sebastián look like an ugly city.

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