The latest film by Roman Polanski, "J'accuse", is released this Wednesday in France, projected on 520 screens, or one French room out of ten. Despite the accusations of rape issued by Valentine Monnier, no cinema operator has yet deprogrammed the film. One of their representatives even explains that the Polish director is neither indicted, let alone condemned, and that it is not for the theater directors to play the judges. Deprogramming the film would return to him according to censorship.
These new charges of rape on Roman Polanski create controversy and add to the long list of liberation of women's words about sexual violence. A situation that is delighted actress Karin Viard. "The simple act of talking, it avoids the secrets and the dark corners ... Men are not all predators and bastards, but those who are are going to start asking questions about them and it's not more bad, "says the winner of the César Best Actress in 2000.
"We have the duty to speak for others"
Karin Viard adds that she has recently become aware of the weight of this liberated speech: "It is true that when one is an actress, that one has the chance to have this power, this fame, this charisma, one does not have. It's not just about rights, we also have the duty to speak for others, it's not trivial, it's not nothing. "