Cannes: Susan Sarandon takes issue with Woody Allen at film fest

By stating that she has "nothing good to say" about Woody Allen, Susan Sarandon said plenty.

Sarandon discussed the allegations of sexual abuse that have dogged the filmmaker during Variety and Kering’s Women in Motion talk with Geena Davis at Cannes Film Festival in France Sunday.

“I think he sexually assaulted a child and I don’t think that’s right,” said Sarandon, before adding, “I have nothing good to say about him. I don’t want to go there.”

It has been a rough festival for Allen, who opened Cannes last week with the world premiere of his new film, Café Society.

At the premiere, French comedian Laurent Lafitte compared Allen to Roman Polanski and made a joke at the director's expense about the allegations that he sexually abused his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow: “It gives me pleasure to see you because you’ve filmed so much in Europe and you haven’t even been convicted of rape in the USA.”

That came the same day The Hollywood Reporter ran an opinion piece written by Allen's son Ronan Farrow that criticized the media for not sufficiently digging into the allegations.

Allen later brushed off Lafitte's barb. "I feel that any comedian should be free to tell any joke he wants. I’m against any kind of joke censorship," Allen told Paste BN. "Comedians are free to tell jokes. As another comedian, I never pass judgment."