The Roman Polanski case still embarrasses French cinema. Marlène Schiappa, Secretary of State for Gender Equality, was invited to comment on the 12 nominations for Roman Polanski's film J'accuse , at the Césars 2020, including those for best director and best film, at the LCI antenna this Thursday. "Are the Caesars accomplices in the culture of rape? Asks Elizabeth Martichoux.
"I don't have the feeling that French cinema has changed in terms of gender-based and sexual violence against women," said the Secretary of State in particular. The 4,313 professionals of the 7th art who vote for the Césars have acclaimed the film of a director accused of rape and sexual assault by eleven women and still prosecuted by the American justice for facts dating back to 1977.
"What message does this send to women"?
And the secretary of state to continue: “For a very long time, we were told that when a man was accused of rape by a woman, he saw his career broken, his life was over. There, we see that this is absolutely not the case and that it is rather women with the courage to speak who see doors close. "
The president of the Academy Alain Terzian argued that the Césars are "not an authority which must have moral positions". "It shocks me, I wonder what message it sends to women, especially those who are going to work in the world of cinema," reacts Marlène Schiappa. And to recall that "we do not wonder what Valentine Monnier", the Frenchwoman who accuses the director of rape, "can feel".
"I would be indignant to see an entire room standing applauding a person accused of rape without any thought, without any empathy for the women who see this scene and who have been raped, not necessarily by Roman Polanski but by others "Concluded the Secretary of State.
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