Michael Haneke On #MeToo: "The Witch Hunt Should Be Left In The Middle Ages"

Oscar and double Palme d’Or winner Michael Haneke has become the latest prominent European artist to lament what he calls a “witch hunt” in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Speaking with Kurier, the Austrian filmmaker said there is no question that “any form of rape or coercion is punishable… But this hysterical pre-judgment which is spreading now, I find absolutely disgusting. And I don't want to know how many of these accusations related to incidents 20 or 30 years ago…