Organizers of the petition to release Roman Polanski are none too pleased that Emma Thompson has withdrawn her name: one is accusing her of “petition tourism.” “Madame Emma Thompson is but passing through petitions,” writes novelist and filmmaker Yann Moix on the website of Bernard-Henri Lévy’s journal, La Règle du jeu, this morning. “She does not own, she is a tenant. Worse: she is there visiting, with the badge ‘guest.’” He adds, “In life, we must choose between whims and ideas…We at La Règle du Jeu would now sign a petition that Madame Emma Thompson never again sign a petition, because it would not be the signature that would be ridiculed, but this time the cause.” (Translation courtesy of …
