Roman Polanski is looking to his wife for redemption, among other things.

Daddy Issues

In her new memoir, Emmanuelle Seigner attempts to re-frame her husband, Roman Polanski, as a doting spouse and father. But even the French aren’t buying it

By Alexandra Marshall

“I think the #MeToo phenomenon is fantastic, that speech has been liberated, and that we can hear the victims of rape and incest and all that,” Emmanuelle Seigner said the other night on BFMTV, France’s CNN, where the actress, singer, and wife of Roman Polanski was promoting her memoir, Une Vie Incendiée (A Burned-Down Life), which came out this week.

Oh no, here comes the “but.” “But my speech has also been liberated, and I’m a woman, too.”