To the background of the song “Bela Chao” in Persian, French actresses and singers cut a curl of hair in front of the camera, repeating a move that has become a symbol of the ongoing uprising in Iran
THE Isabelle Huppert, Marion Cotillard, Isabelle Adjani, Juliette Binoche… Numerous French actresses and singers cut off a lock of their hair in solidarity with the Iranian women’s struggle, as seen in a video released today via Instagram.
Against the background of the song “Bela Chao” in Persian, these actresses and singers, who also include Belgium’s Angel and French-speaking Britons Charlotte Rambling and Jane Birkin, cut a curl of hair in front of the camera, repeating a move that was symbol of the ongoing uprising in Iran.
“The Iranian people, women first, are protesting at the risk of their lives. All these people hope for is to gain access to the most fundamental freedoms. These women, these men, are asking for our support,” they say in a text message accompanying the video on the “soutienfemmesiran” Instagram account.
Messages sans précédent d’actrices et de chanteuses françaises de renom (Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard, Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, Angèle…) qui se coupent les cheveux en soutien au combat des Iranianiennes pour leur liberté. #Iran #MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/n66Ry7Lg6K
— Armin Arefi (@arminarefi) October 5, 2022
“Their courage and their dignity bind us. It is impossible not to continue to denounce this terrible oppression (…) We have thus decided to respond to the call made to us by cutting some of these curls too,” they add to this call, which was initiated by lawyers.
Yesterday, more than 1,000 personalities of the French seventh art, including stars such as Léa Seydoux, Isabelle Huppert and Danny Boon, famous filmmakers or the head of the Cannes Film Festival Thierry Fremaux, had already asked “to support the uprising of women in Iran,” in their article forwarded to Agence France-Presse.
Mahsha Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, died on September 16, three days after she was arrested for violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code, which requires women to wear headscarves. Her death sparked a wave of protests in Iran, which were violently suppressed, as well as solidarity rallies with Iranian women around the world.
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