Emmanuelle Béart: Breaking the Silence – A Powerful Documentary on Incest and Healing

2023-09-24 21:50:05

Emmanuelle Béart breaks this noisy silence. This Sunday, September 24, M6 broadcast a documentary in the second part of the evening in which the actress testifies to the incest she suffered for four years. If she kept the secret of this family drama for a long time, Emmanuelle Béart wanted to exorcise her pain by making a film regarding it. “Deeply struck by Christine Angot’s emergence into literature“, she had first imagined adapting one of her books, as she reported to the magazine Elle. Ultimately, she turned to documentaries. “It was love at first sight for the director Anastasia Mikova, whose film Woman I had seen, which gave me the opportunity to take action. She did not experience incest, but she this intelligence and this distance which were strangely necessary to me to address this subject“, she confided.

It was this meeting that “everything changes“, she confirms in A silence so loud. Who he allowed ” to break out of this silenceand thus reveal that she herself was a victim of a member of her family. However, it was not without difficulty. And seeing the testimonies of those who speak in her film was overwhelming for Emmanuelle Béart. During the design of her documentary, she went through a moment of doubt and strong emotion…which almost pushed her to put an end to it. A poignant sequence that she shows on the air. Viewers can see Emmanuelle Béart viewing the rushes of an interview with Norma on her computer. The young woman explains that following 20 years of silence, her grandfather “no longer has any weight on [sa] vie“and that he”will not have won“. Despite her sunglasses, Emmanuelle Béart’s emotion is palpable.

When Emmanuelle Béart didn’t “no longer want to do“this documentary

I’m in a stadium that scares me a lot“, she admits. And details: “What scares me the most is not even breaking down. It’s being anesthetized, as happens to me. I told this to Frédéric [Chaudier, son mari, ndlr], to my children. I told them it’s as if all of a sudden, speech created something which little by little anesthetizes me, so that’s what scares me the most.“On the contrary, we witnessed it. Guy Béart’s daughter is in no way anesthetized by what she hears. She is shocked by it.”It’s super hard“, she believes. So much so thatshe almost stopped everything. “It’s going to be super hard. There, I’m at the point where I say to myself I don’t want to do it anymore“, she blurted out, her throat tight with emotion. Emmanuelle Béart finally managed to get to the end of this film. Enough”soothe one’s own distress“.

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