(AFP) — Latest steps in #me too Movement can occur in the following stages french movies Awarded on Friday.
French media reports that Judith Godreche is scheduled to give a speech on sexual violence at the Cesar Awards ceremony. FranceThe version of the Oscars broadcast live on television.
Godreche has already sent a powerful message to the public through a recent interview in which he denounced the industry’s “omerta.”
The announcement comes as the French film industry is expected to shine at next month’s Oscar ceremony with Justine Triet’s courtroom drama “Anatomy of Fall.”
Mr. Godreche, 51, is well known to French film fans. She recently accused two film directors of rape and sexual abuse when she was a teenager.she filed a formal complaint Earlier this month, the Paris prosecutor said:
She has accused film director Benoît Jacot, who she dated for six years starting when she was 14, of rape and physical abuse. Jacot is a prominent French director and is 25 years older than her.
she too accuse another film directorJacques Doillon sexually abused her while she was a film director when she was 15 years old. Doillon is 28 years older than her.
Both Jacot and Doillon deny the allegations.
Godreche told France Inter radio earlier this month that he was never attracted to Jacot. “But I ended up with him, in his bed, and I became his child’s wife.” Godreche and Jaco met on the set of his film The Beggars in 1986. .
“I was brainwashed, it was like being part of a cult,” she said. The relationship was marred by violence, confinement and control, she said.
Godreche previously spoke about her relationship with Jaco, without naming him, in an autobiographical television program called “Icons of French Cinema” that was released in December.
She was one of the actors who spoke out against American film producer Harvey Weinstein in 2017, accusing him of sexual assault when she was 24, amid the #MeToo movement.
Jacot said. Le Monde The newspaper said it had “no immediate concerns” about Mr Godreche’s accusations and said she was in love with Mr Godreche at the time. He denied any abuse of power.
Doillon said in a statement to Agence France-Presse that “just cause does not justify arbitrary accusations, false accusations and lies.”
Following Godreche’s accusations, other women decided to speak out.
Isilde Le Besco, 41, accused Jaco of “mental and physical violence” in their relationship, which began when she was 16 and he was 52. Ms Doillon also accused him of choosing someone else for the position that was supposed to be his. He refused his sexual advances.
Another actor, Anna Mouglalis, 45, accused Doillon of sexual assault in 2011.
The French film industry was previously rocked by accusations of sexual misconduct against actor Gerard Depardieu.
In 2020, women’s rights activists staged a protest at the Cesar Awards ceremony when Roman Polanski won the Best Director award in absentia. Actor Adele Haenel, who accused another French director of sexual assault when she was 15 in the early 2000s, got up and left the room.
Polanski remains wanted in the United States, decades after he was charged with raping a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
