French feminist groups staged a protest against a retrospective honoring director Roman Polanski at film institute La Cinematheque Francaise.
A few dozen protesters gathered near the Paris institute as the event was starting, booing as Polanski attended the opening.
Two members of the Femen activist group went topless near Polanski inside the film institute, shouting "no honor for rapists." The institute said its role was not to moralize.
Polish-born Polanski in the 1970s pleaded guilty to having sex in the U.S. with a 13-year-old girl, whom he plied with champagne and Quaaludes.
Since Polanski fled the U.S., he has mostly lived in Paris.
Director of Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby, he won the Academy Award for best director for The Pianist in 2003.
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