Polanski attends wife's Montreux concert
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July 19, 2010, Monday
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FILM director Roman Polanski, freed earlier this week from house arrest in Switzerland, attended a Saturday night concert given by his wife at the Montreux jazz festival.
The 76-year-old Polanski arrived with festival founder Claude Nobs for the performance by French actress and singer Emmanuelle Seigner on the closing night of the annual event on Lake Geneva.
Polanski was mobbed by photographers as he arrived with heavy security, but did not speak or appear on the stage during his wife's 55-minute set, which he watched from a VIP box.
Montreux is an hour's drive from the village of Gstaad where Polanski was kept under house arrest at his chalet from December until last Monday, when Swiss authorities announced they would not extradite him to the United States to face sentencing for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
Polanski was arrested last September 26 in Zurich, where he had been invited to receive an achievement award at a Swiss film festival, on the basis of a US extradition request.
Before attending Saturday's show, Polanski thanked the people of Gstaad in his first television interview since being released. "I'm not sure what I will do hereafter," he told Swiss station TSR. "For the moment I'm happy to be free. I never asked for special treatment," he said.
Seigner, wearing a black hat, black jeans and boots, began her performance with the theme song from Polanski's 1968 film "Rosemary's Baby". She also sang "Sing Sing", "Femme Fatale" and "Le Fantome", mixing English and French language numbers, many from "Dingue", her second album released this year.
Seigner was named on the line-up only a few weeks ago, stepping in to replace the group Black Dub whose frontman Daniel Lanois was injured in a motorcycle accident. Polanski is a friend of Nobs, who founded the lakeside festival 44 years ago.
The 76-year-old Polanski arrived with festival founder Claude Nobs for the performance by French actress and singer Emmanuelle Seigner on the closing night of the annual event on Lake Geneva.
Polanski was mobbed by photographers as he arrived with heavy security, but did not speak or appear on the stage during his wife's 55-minute set, which he watched from a VIP box.
Montreux is an hour's drive from the village of Gstaad where Polanski was kept under house arrest at his chalet from December until last Monday, when Swiss authorities announced they would not extradite him to the United States to face sentencing for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
Polanski was arrested last September 26 in Zurich, where he had been invited to receive an achievement award at a Swiss film festival, on the basis of a US extradition request.
Before attending Saturday's show, Polanski thanked the people of Gstaad in his first television interview since being released. "I'm not sure what I will do hereafter," he told Swiss station TSR. "For the moment I'm happy to be free. I never asked for special treatment," he said.
Seigner, wearing a black hat, black jeans and boots, began her performance with the theme song from Polanski's 1968 film "Rosemary's Baby". She also sang "Sing Sing", "Femme Fatale" and "Le Fantome", mixing English and French language numbers, many from "Dingue", her second album released this year.
Seigner was named on the line-up only a few weeks ago, stepping in to replace the group Black Dub whose frontman Daniel Lanois was injured in a motorcycle accident. Polanski is a friend of Nobs, who founded the lakeside festival 44 years ago.
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