Jacques Doillon: complaint after the problematic casting of children for the filming of “CE2”

Jacques Doillon: complaint after the problematic casting of children for the filming of “CE2”

Several Le Monde journalists had access to videos of the auditions of the children considered to star in “CE2”, Jacques Doillon’s latest feature film. These minors seem forced to talk about traumatic experiences. Several deputies have filed a complaint with the Paris Prosecutor’s Office.

How the children in the cast were treated CE2, Jacques Doillon’s latest film? This is a question that has been asked The world in an article published this Wednesday, March 27. While the release of the latest film by the octogenarian director has been suspended, accused of rape by Judith Godrèche, sexual violence by Anna Mouglalis and sexual harassment by Isild Le Besco, the cast of children in this filming ask questions.

The consent of the children in question

Because about fifteen videos of the auditions seen by The world shows children aged 7 to 8, often uncomfortable, invited to tell their stories with great emphasis on the facts and details of sexual harassment of which they were victims, witnesses or perpetrators at school, even if they don’t want to talk about it.

Their wishes appear not to have been respected. As for an 8 year old girl, that she sees herself constraint after great insistence from the casting director to talk about an experience of sexual harassment suffered at school, even if she immediately wants to change the subject. “ Where is their consent and privacy guaranteed? How can we avoid inflicting psychological violence on them? » ask our colleagues at Le Monde.

A report to the Paris Prosecutor’s Office

Having had access to these videos, three deputies, Perrine Goulet, Veronica Riotton AND Erwan Balanant, members of the delegations for children’s rights or women’s rights, sent a report to the Paris prosecutor’s office, pursuant to Article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, relating to the protection of children and violence committed against minors. An investigation should be opened.


“Now there must be an investigation to legally characterize the facts. Art, whatever it is, cannot justify violence against a child »the three deputies declared to our colleagues World.

Stories that fueled the writing of the screenplay

And it is no coincidence that, during her Senate hearing on February 29, Judith Godrèche strongly criticized the casting conditions for Jacques Doillon’s film.

They features a little girl who is bullied at school. I know that she wanted this child to be a bullied child in her life, to have her relive on screen what she experienced in her life, so that this suffering seems real. »

Judith Godreche.

Some members of the film crew CE2 interviewed by The world, and who wished to remain anonymous, expressed the same discomfort. Because these interviews contributed to the writing of the screenplay.

This feature film features two children, a boy and a girl, who end up falling in love, while at the beginning of the film the first forces the second to kiss him, and then touches her forcefully. Some scenes in the film are exact reproductions stories heard during the hearings.


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