Roman Polanski: The Palace, his new film with Fanny Ardan, will soon be released in French cinemas.

After being presented at the 2023 Venice Film Festival without a distributor, Roman Polanski’s latest film The Palace has finally found a French distributor. It is the structure of Swashbuckler Films, which usually specializes in re-releases of old films and especially westerns, that acquired the French distribution rights.

Release date in the middle of the Cannes Film Festival!

If a film cannot be presented at the Cannes Film Festival because it has already been selected at another festival earlier, the distributor has chosen a date that coincides with the 2024 edition of the festival. The Palace will be released on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. FYI, the Cannes Film Festival will start the day before, on May 14, 2024.

Point out that it is on this date, May 14, 2024, that we will know about the trial involving Roman Polanski against the actress Charlotte Lewis. The latter accuses the 90-year-old director of defamation. For information, this British actress is one of the women who condemned the director’s actions. He claims to have been “A victim of sexual violenceBy the director, in the early 1980s, when he was 16 years old. The verdict will be delivered on May 14, 2024.

24th feature film, made less than 3 years after J’accuse’s controversial debut.

Polanski is Roman Polanski’s 24th feature film. Filming took place in 2022 in Switzerland at the 5-star Gstaad Palace Hotel.

The story takes the form of a closed session: in a large hotel, on the evening of December 31, 1999, at the dawn of the new millennium, the fate of several clients and staff members of this institution located in the Swiss Alps is intertwined.

Fanny Ardan, John Cleese and Mickey Rourke are among the most famous personalities in the cast. German actor Oliver Masucci, as well as Portuguese actor Joaquim de Almeida.

After the postponement of filming (previously announced to start in the fall of 2021), the first applause took place in the month of March 2022, a little more than 3 years after the release of the French accused.

The film has already been released in several European countries, starting with Italy on September 28. It was presented without competition in Venice in September 2023 and It was warmly received by critics. He will arrive in France 8 months later, on May 15, 2024.