LOIC VENANCE / AFP Actress and director Judith Godreche returned to her controlling relationship with Benoît Jacquot after watching a documentary in which the director made shocking remarks.
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Actress and director Judith Godreche returned to her controlling relationship with Benoît Jacquot after watching a documentary in which the director made shocking remarks.
CULTURE – A vision that shook the actress. While the miniseries inspired by her life allowed Judith Godrèche to gradually open up about the relationship of influence that linked her to the French director Benoît Jacquot – she was 14 and he was 39 – she always seemed to refuse to pronounce her name.
Known by almost everyone at the time of the events, the relationship that linked the actress to the French filmmaker is today the occasion of an important work of introspection for Judith Godrèche, which therefore resulted in the production of her Arte series Icon of French cinema.
But this Saturday, January 6, the actress nominated three times for the César during her career, decided to make her Instagram account public to speak openly. And openly mention the director’s name.
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The cinema ? One” cover » for different morals
Speech motivated by watching a documentary produced by Gérard Miller in 2011 (The tricks of desire: The forbidden) where Benoît Jacquot takes on the transgressive aspect of his past relationship with the teenager, then the protagonist of his films, without the slightest complexion. These images were sent to the actress by “ a stranger ». « Yes, it was a transgression. At least as far as the law is concerned (…) we don’t have the right in principle, I think. A girl like her who was actually 15 years old, and I was 40, I had no right », we hear him answer a question from the psychoanalyst and director.
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He adds: ” She didn’t care about that at all and it turned her on a lot too, I’d say », he assures before completing his thought by stating that cinema allows you to obtain “ a sort of cover for a morality of this type ».
Worse still, Benoît Jacquot claims that the artistic microcosm in which he lived felt “ a certain esteem, a certain admiration for what undoubtedly others would also like to practice”. An admiration and respect for this “small world” which he did not find “Not unpleasant though.”
“His name is Benoît Jacquot”
Crude observations that inevitably marked the actress when she discovered them on social networks. On her Instagram account, the actress revealed the cinema of Beggars et The Disenchanted by Benoît Jacquot, in fact, therefore chose to shout out loud the name of the man who she also refused to name in the series inspired by his story.
« I did a series. She’s funny and serious. I’m not quoting anyone (…) I was afraid that the subject would disappear behind a name “, Moreover ” the little girl in me can no longer remain silent about this name » expresses, in a series of stories that you can find below.
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« His name is Benoît Jacquot “, he adds, stating that the filmmaker, now 76 years old “ still manipulates those who might associate their names with mine. Witness. He even threatens to take me to court for defamation “. She also states that she was 14 years old at the beginning of their relationship, while the director states in the documentary released online that she was 15 (the age of sexual majority in France).
In other stories, Judith Godrèche confides that “ Fear “. Fear ” of no longer working, of not being supported “. But she considers it her duty to speak, and therefore it matters” to reflect on ” deposit “ tell everything ».
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In this speech, Judith Godrèche also questions her words, which could hurt her. For this reason she evokes the “ ardor” or “the impulse to revolt”. » that he might regret it and that “ it will definitely create discord ». « I probably would never have expressed myself in such a personal way on these networks if this documentary had not fallen before my eyes » he finally concluded.
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2024-01-07 15:06:18
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