The actress, who has accused two directors of raping her as a teenager, will speak at France’s most prestigious film awards ceremony
Judith Godrèchean actress who has accused two filmmakers of raping her as a teenager, will speak at France’s most prestigious film awards ceremony on Friday, February 23, 2024, in an unusual move aimed at “breaking” what she calls “omerta” around the abuse of women and girls in the entertainment industry.
Judith Godrèche to address French cinema’s ‘omertà’ around #MeToo
Actor, who has accused two directors of raping her as a teenager, to address France’s most prestigious film awards ceremonyhttps://t.co/WPzmsj7N0s
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Judith Godreche will take the stage at the César Awards (kind of like the Oscars) and talk about everything. The 51-year-old actress has accused them directed by Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillonformer partner of the late singer and actress Jane Birkin, for rape and sexual assault when she was a teenager.
She claimed that Jacquot, an acclaimed art-house director, took advantage of her in front of French cinema and journalists when they were a couple after he cast her in his film Les mendiants in 1987. She was 14 at the time and he was 39.
The actress also accused Doillon of forcing her to do 45 takes of an unscripted love scene with him when she was 15 during the filming of his 1989 film La fille de 15 ans. .
After Godrèche told her story to the French press, several other actors came forward with allegations of sexual assault and harassment.
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Jacquot denied the allegations and maintained that all sexual relations were consensual. Doillon also denied the allegations, calling them “lies.”
The French film industry has also been rocked by the numerous allegations against actor Gérard Depardieu, who is already under investigation following a rape complaint. The latest allegation came last week when an assistant accused him of sexual assault in 2014.
In December there was outrage when 50 artists signed an open letter protesting that Mr Gerard Depardieu he is being “lynched” and that he is being denied the right to be presumed innocent. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, also expressed his support for the actor in a TV interview. Depardieu has denied the allegations of rape and sexual assault.
“There is a generation that still does not understand this development in society,” said Muriel Reus, vice president of #MeToomedia, an association that fights against sexual violence in the media, at the time.
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The success of the TV series starring Judith Godreche, “Icon of French Cinema”, reignited France’s #MeToo movement and once again brought to light accounts of sexual abuse of teenage girls by older men in the art world.
In 2020, Adèle Haenel, who began her career as a child actress, walked out of the César Awards ceremony shouting “shame” after Roman Polanski was awarded best director for his film ‘J’accuse’. Haenel quit the French film industry last year, complaining of a “general complacency” towards “sexual crimes”.
Judith Godreche has been invited to address senators on the Women’s Rights and Equality Committee in Parliament on February 29, the Guardian newspaper reports.
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