” It is because we passionately love our profession that we speak today. “As the 76th Cannes Film Festival opened on Tuesday evening May 16, more than a hundred actresses and actors released the same day in Publication a reporting platform “a system that supports the attackers”.
By rolling out the red carpet to the men and women who attack, the festival sends the message that in our country we can continue to carry out violence with complete impunity, that violence is acceptable in the places of creation.
Among the signatories, Geraldine Nakache, Laura Calamy, Swann Arlaud, Anna Mouglalis, Clotilde Hesmebut also Julie Gayet OR Zita Henrot. These 123 actresses and actors refuse to ” remain silent in the face of the political positions of the Cannes Film Festival “.
Make “another voice heard”
And for good reason, this 76th edition of the festival is plagued by a lot of controversy. Especially the opening session with Joan of Barry by Maiwenn. The film pays homage to Johnny Depp, accused of domestic violence by his ex-wife Amber Heard, as well as its director, who admitted to assaulting the journalist and founder of Mediapart Edward Plenell. After the screening on Tuesday 16 May, the film received a seven-minute standing ovation.
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A certain complacency previously denounced in the forum: “French cinema has integrated a dysfunctional system that crushes and annihilates. We have known this for some time, we are its victims and daily witnesses. »explain the signatories of the forum, which can also be signed online.
They also write to support all those who dare to denounce the violence present in the French film community:
We want to make another voice heard, that of the men and women who support the technicians, the actors and actresses who denounce the violence, the journalists who publish these investigations. We know the world of cinema, we believe you, we don’t want to be silent anymore, we support you.
Support for Adele Haenel
The collective also lends its support to Adèle Haenel, who had formalized in Telerama his arrest of the cinema to report a ” complacency of French cinema against sexual aggressors. “Adèle Haenel recently recalled that she ‘decided to politicize her cinematic stage’. It is a decision that we understand and support”.they write.
The actress had notably accused the Cannes Film Festival of continuing to invite and highlight violent men. Thierry Fremauxdeputy director of the Cannes Film Festival,say goodbye to accusations in an answer tinged with irony: “Adèle Haenel didn’t think in these terms when she came to Cannes as an actress, at least I hope she didn’t suffer from dissonance there. »
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Source: Madmoizelle
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