2024-03-08 10:10:09
We know that French cinema will never be the same once more since Judith Godrèche spoke. The actress-screenwriter Naïlia Harzoune wrote this letter to him…
Hello Judith,
When I leave a cinema, I like to feel the contours of my imagination shaken and imbued with a particular energy, a new aesthetic. An impalpable material within me that transforms and changes my relationship to the world. This is often how I can tell if I liked the film.
Today, I hear your voice and strangely the sensations are the same: I feel an awakening. You remind my body that it is soft, removable matter, both powerful and vulnerable. That it is possible that this fourteen-year-old child, victim of a child molester legitimized by an entire community, tells the story from his point of view. That history is not written in advance and that each of us has the ability to act on this world.
You remind my body that it is a social body, constructed, conditioned that nothing can stop asking itself: conditioned by what? by who ?
By listening to you Judith, I don’t learn so much regarding the dark depths of the beautiful French cinema industry, but I learn how we carry our voice, how we hold our shoulders, how we stare, or not for that matter. , her stare. I am learning to remember that speech is political and that it has too often been the tool of a narrative serving cynicism, violence and control.
We have given certain men, particularly through art, all the space necessary to tell their stories to us: films, books, introspective albums… We know your joys, your sorrows, your intentions, your violence by heart. , your loves… We know what you love and hate. Your story is hegemonic, it is that of powerful men who look at each other, validate each other and congratulate each other. He is the one who feeds on romantic perceptions built on the sublimation of women’s inferiority.
And then the warriors arrive: Adèle Haenel, Judith Chemla, Anouk Grinberg, Virginie Despentes… you, Judith Godrèche. Your voice reinforces the idea that we are going to create a company together and tell our story. The story of those who reclaim a subject position.
Question with you
Today you denounce abuse, and the silence that makes it possible – because silence always works in favor of the guilty. It is the decline in society’s threshold of tolerance for things that it did not want to see or name that we are witnessing. It is the challenge of an honest, humanist and transgenerational society that I feel while listening to you, reading you. It is the awakening in me – finally – of a deep desire to question: that of my references, and that of society. Our tastes are political, we construct an aesthetic of life through them, for us and our children, this is also one of the main points of your series.
You push Judith, and I like being pushed because it is above all a sign of being alive to accept emotion, embarrassment, questioning. To think together, and not once morest each other. To question with you a systemic logic that despises women, a justice that crushes them. This is, I think, one of the most urgent subjects; justice must absolutely question itself if it wants to reflect society. Of what passes through it. And, we don’t give a damn if “she” had been drinking or if “she” was wearing a skirt, let’s say it once and for all, that’s not the subject!
To think of male domination as a structural domination and to question the way in which we – still – construct virility today. Violence once morest women is mainly committed by men, the issue cannot be avoided.
Your voice is a necessary, vibrant relay in changing the narrative. Thank you for being so frank and strong. It is a refuge with abundant resources which reminds us that defining a society begins by asking the question: “who do we listen to?” » This morbid systemic logic which praises the greatest aggressors. And in all walks of life? Or are we listening to other forms of discourse?
I listen to you Judith and I hear you.
To a sinister and vulgar narration which made love the territory of violent, sadistic and misogynistic men, your voice opposes a counter-narration. A resistance that shows that women are leaving their age-old role – that of giving men the image of themselves that they want to see – and are subjects of desire. A counter-narration that opens up new erotic imaginations, new spaces of thought. The imprint of a story that eroticizes equality to use Gloria Steinem’s powerful slogan.
Our way of thinking regarding love changes, with your story, your words and your analytical intelligence. With your strength too. Another form of love is possible and we are building it. The impact of your words is one of the major signs.
And speech is powerful, it forces us out of immobility, out of fear, it brings back life.
So, for life, thank you Judith.
By Naïlia Harzoune
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