Mia Farrow continues to perform.
In the first part of HBO’s new docuseries, “Allen vs. Farrow,” the actress, who appears as primordial and tense as the state of Connecticut, tells, once again, how she was emotionally mutilated by filmmaker Woody Allen , which left her out. for an older daughter and, she claims, proceeded to annoy her other prepubescent girl.
It is a fascinating but strangely antiseptic interpretation of an actress who has dedicated her life to taking revenge on the man who did her wrong.
The problem is that it seems to me that not a single word, with the possible exceptions of “and” and “but,” is true.
And, once again, Mia’s scorched earth revenge fantasy has vindicated an innocent victim: her daughter, Dylan, who was allegedly brutalized by Woody when she was 7 years old. As she has for decades, Mia is exploiting Dylan, now 35, by mentally mutilating her, throwing her under the Woody bus in a twisted effort to destroy the life, reputation, and career of her former lover. .
Why did the filmmakers animate her so cynically? Maybe because this scary one is the best story than the one that really happened.
As you watch the first part, which premiered Sunday, it’s helpful to compare Mia’s current story of betrayal and endless eating at lively restaurants with what she testified in a New York City courtroom in 1993, while Woody sued her for the custody of the three children. they share.
A crucial point in the episode comes when Mia recounts finding Polaroid photos of her daughter Soon-Yi Previn in Woody’s apartment on the other side of Central Park. In the photos, Soon-Yi is naked.
According to Mia’s revisionist story of the event, Soon-Yi, now 50, is not just an amateur, but the subject of hard-core “pornography,” straight from “Hustler”.
The discovery of the perverted skin caused Mia to rush back to her apartment, trembling, she says now, to confront her daughter.
“Soon-Yi was home and I remember saying that. “I found the pictures,” Farrow recalls “suddenly”. “And he said,‘ What photos? And I said, “The photos Woody took.” And she started crying and I started crying and I say to myself, “No, no, it’s not your fault.” And she was out of her mind. ”
Sweet.
And seemingly false.
When Mia, now 76, testified in court about 28 years ago, no one was crying. Instead, Mia testified, after confronting Soon-Yi about the merely “naked” images, that her daughter mocked her mother.
“The person you sleep with [Woody] that’s what the relationship is all about, ”Mia recalled bitterly saying Soon-Yi. And then, Mia admitted at the booth that he punched the young woman.
“I’m not proud,” Mia declared coldly.
In addition to this ugly – but honest – show of anger, I saw an exhibition in the room that made me question Mia’s sanity. It was a photograph of Mia with her gigantic biological and adopted child rearing. Mia had put metal stakes in each person’s chest to show Woody how his actions with Soon-Yi had broken their hearts.
There were other television deviations from the story that had turned.
Mia says in the documentary that a therapist, around 1990, gave the opinion that Woody acted “inappropriately,” but not sexually, toward Dylan around 1990, when Mia was still with him. He mentions this to explain why he stayed with Woody and had a son with him.
But the probable truth is much simpler: no child discomfort occurred. No, as Mia claimed, at her home in Connecticut. Nowhere. (Woody has firmly denied that it ever happened).
Mia won primary custody of her children, but was never shown to be entirely right.
The fact remains that no matter how much Mia and her followers want the abuse to be true, New York State authorities said they could not prove the allegations and Connecticut child abuse experts concluded that Mia he could have “trained” Dylan to lie this. Mia’s adopted son, Moses, 43, has also long claimed that his mother “brainwashed” Dylan into believing it.
Woody and Soon-Yi have been married since 1997 and have two adopted daughters. There has never been any other charge of harassment against him, either before or after Dylan’s. Experts in the field claim that those who attack young people often commit these crimes repeatedly.
The saddest thing is that Dylan Farrow seems to believe it was Woody’s prey. He may never recover from these seemingly false memories.
That’s why filmmakers and Mia Farrow should be ashamed.