Isild Le Besco just isn’t able to file a grievance in opposition to the director | EUROtoday
Get real time updates directly on you device, subscribe now.
EShe just isn’t able to file a grievance in opposition to Benoît Jacquot. Actress Isild Le Besco explains in an autobiography, which seems this Wednesday, May 1, why she didn’t reply to calls from investigators after her accusations in opposition to director Benoît Jacquot, whom she believes “raped” her. .
This ebook entitled “Dire vérité”, revealed by Denoël, seems to be at size on the relationship they started when she was 16, through the filming of the movie. Sade, and he’s 62 years previous. A love story on paper, which she described within the pages of Parisian final February, as “a destructive influence, a loss of self”, with “especially psychological violence”.
During her interview with our colleagues, the actress, now 41 years previous, affirmed that it was “probable that at one point” she would file a grievance in opposition to him, in addition to in opposition to one other director, Jacques Doillon.
“To say that Benoît raped me is obvious”
At the tip of her ebook, Isild Le Besco lastly provides the the explanation why she didn’t reply to calls from investigators from the juvenile brigade who needed to listen to from her. “They are asking me and still asking me to collect my complaint against Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon,” she stories.
“I don’t want to confront again these dusty institutions, designed and governed by men […] It's already so taxing to write. To name. To face your troubles,” continues the writer.
“To be a victim, yes, but of whom? And from what exactly? The sexualization of my body in cinema? Years of influence from Benoît Jacquot? Jacques Doillon's lack of professional ethics? », she asks. “To say that Benoît raped me is obvious […] I was a teenager and I gave him my complete trust. He replaced my father, my mother, any authority figure. In this way, her rape is also incestuous,” considers the actress.
READ ALSO Benoît Jacquot: who’s the filmmaker accused of rape by Judith Godrèche?Another actress, Judith Godrèche, 52, filed a grievance in opposition to the 2 administrators for sexual and bodily violence which dates again to her adolescence. She has turn out to be a spearhead of the #MeToo motion in France.
https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/affaire-benoit-jacquot-isild-le-besco-n-est-pas-prete-a-porter-plainte-contre-le-realisateur-30-04-2024-2559128_23.php