2023-12-30 12:01:24
And French feminist collective denounced on Wednesday President Emmanuel Macron’s support for actor Gérard Depardieu, indicted for rape and widely criticized following the broadcast of images in which he multiplies misogynistic and insulting remarks towards women.
“Of Gérard Depardieu, you said: “He makes France proud”. Five words which commit us all once morest our will and sign a French impunity, that of an idol, of a sacred monster to whom we forgive everything”, write the signatories of this open letter, initiated by the #MeTooMedia collective and published by the daily Le Monde.
In a television interview on December 20, Emmanuel Macron denounced a “manhunt” once morest Gérard Depardieu. “He made France, our great authors, our great characters known throughout the world. (…) He makes France proud,” he declared.
The icon of French cinema has been in turmoil since the broadcast at the beginning of December of a “Complément d’Enquête” report on the public channel France 2, in which we see him multiplying misogynistic insults.
The report also returned to his indictment for rape in 2020, following a complaint from an actress in her twenties, Charlotte Arnould. The actor, targeted by two other complaints for sexual assault and rape, refutes these accusations.
Some voices in French cinema have since denounced his behavior towards women, particularly on the sets, and the silence which surrounded him.
“He did not attack the great actresses, rather the little assistants… Vulgarity and provocation were always his stock in trade,” remembers Sophie Marceau who shared the poster with him in “Police” ( 1985), in an interview to appear Thursday in Paris Match.
“Is it not surprising that we have to wait fifty years to tell an actor that his behavior with assistants, dressers, his partners is not acceptable, even under the pretext of being silly?”, asks for his part actress Isabelle Carré in a text published Wednesday by the weekly magazine Elle.
A pro-Depardieu camp also mobilized, until the publication on Tuesday of a support column denouncing a “lynching”, signed by around sixty cultural figures and published in Le Figaro.
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