Yes, did she feel uncomfortable about the fact that Polanski is wanted in the States on six criminal counts, including the rape of a 13-year-old girl (as a result of which, Carnage had to be filmed in Paris)?
2) It must be said about the U.S.: More dangerous than refugees, or even terrorists for that matter, is the gun mayhem in this country, which carnage has produced, at an average of over 30,000 deaths per year, over 406,000 deaths from guns since 2001.
The best parallel with the Sheffield leg is stage three of the 2012 Tour to Boulogne, which was carnage, pure and simple.
"We saw in Las Vegas the carnage, which far exceeded the carnage of any other mass shooting in U.S. history, and it made it very clear to me that there's no purpose whatsoever for a bump stock, other than killing a lot of people very quickly," said John Rosenthal, founder of Stop Handgun Violence, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that advocated for the measure.
The film world offers up Gary Oldman in an adaptation of John Le Carre's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," Alexander Payne's "The Descendants" (his first film since "Sideways"), and Roman Polanski's "Carnage," which adapts Yasmina Reza's "God of Carnage".
Following hard on the heels of George Clooney's festival opener, "The Ides of March," was Roman Polanski's film "Carnage," an adaptation of Yasmina Reza's French stage play "Le Dieu du Carnage," which, after its debut in Zurich in 2006, was a hit in Paris, London and on Broadway.
The carnage, which is known as El Caracazo, traumatized Venezuelan society.
Similar too is the magnitude in which they cause carnage to their people.
"We're dealing with the carnage, which ranges from the trivial to the tragic, of distracted driving," he said.
That's the joy of Yasmina Reza's comedy "God of Carnage," which opened at TheaterWorks in Hartford on Nov. 12.
Soon enough there is carnage, which the puppeteers clean up, only to fall into their own squabbles.
