Woody Allen shrugs at 'cancel culture' at Venice Film Festival as protests stir against him

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Woody Allen's showing at Venice Film Festival drew protests against 'rape culture.' The director shrugged off 'cancel culture' as critics praised his film.

HBO’s new docuseries details the couple’s partnership, its dissolution and Allen’s alleged abuse of daughter Dylan Farrow. Here’s a timeline of key events.While at Venice before the debut of his film, “Coup de Chance” , Allen made further waves when he decried cancel culture, commenting

, “I just find that all so silly. I don’t think about it. I don’t know what it means to be canceled. I know that over the years everything has been the same for me.”In the same interview, the “Annie Hall” director also called some aspects of the #MeToo movement “silly” while acknowledging it as “a good thing” overall.

While Allen did not mention a specific situation, he had separately given comments that seemed to dismiss

 

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