In 2020 the writer Vanessa Springora told Consent the influence imposed on him by the pedophile Gabriel Matzneff, when she was 13 and he was 50.
A moving, revolting work that reveals the impunity of certain men (the successful author was resolutely defended by the intelligentsia of the late 80s), Consent has been adapted into a film, the trailer for which has just been unveiled.
The consent trailer
A film as close to reality as possible, for a necessary story
To bring this chilling story, but whose story is it necessary to make the voice of the victims of paedo crime heard we find the actor Jean-Paul Rouve, head shaved and transformed into Gabriel Matzneff. At 11pm, Kim Higelin, the granddaughter of Jacques Higelin and granddaughter of Izïa Higelin plays Vanessa Springora. As for Laetitia Castaplays the role of his mother.
Directed by Vanessa Filho (Angel Face), the feature film tells the crimes of Gabriel Matzneff suffered by the young girl since their meeting in 1985, when he was alone 13 years.
The film shows the horror suffered by Vanessa Springora, helpless and neglected in the face of a predator adored and protected by the cultural and political world. The trailer suggests a film closer to reality: let’s see in particular Denise Bombardier’s greeting speech against Gabriel Matzneffwho has publicly denounced his pedophilia, his use of Literature as an alibi, in addition to the impunity of the writer, on television in 1990. “I believe that if Mr. Matzneff were rather an anonymous employee in any company, he would be liable to justice”answered the predator, claiming that “Literature has no limits. »
Gabriel Matzneff has never been convicted of her crimes
As a reminder, an investigation into the rape of a minor under the age of 15 had been opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office following the book’s publication but closed without further action, Matzneff’s acts falling within the statute of limitations. Now 87 years old, the predator, who has also claimed his own practice of sex tourism with young children in Asiahe was never convicted.
He lives between France and Italy, where he had taken refuge following the publication of the book. Refusing all interviews, he reacted to them with a simple email sent to the Obs :
” To learn that the book that Vanessa decided to write during my lifetime is not at all the story of our bright and ardent loves, but a hostile, mean, disparaging work, intended to harm me, a sad mix of indictment and diagnosis concocted in the office of a psychoanalyst, causes a sadness in me that suffocates me. »
Consent will be released in theaters on October 11, 2023.
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Source: Madmoizelle
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