INTERVIEW
Les Misérables was awarded the night of Friday to Saturday with the César for best film. "When we try to raise awareness of the weight of the male gaze in French cinema, and it is heavy, we do not ask ourselves the question of the perpetual celebration of entirely male films and celebrating ultra-masculinity like the César du best film of this year, "journalist, essayist and filmmaker Caroline Fourest said on Europe 1 on Saturday in reference to the production by French director Ladj Ly. "I'm also a little embarrassed to say it, because no one dares to say it," she said.
"I think we can understand Adèle Haenel's reaction"
"If feminists have decided to have a debate on whether we should dissociate the man from the work, I am surprised that they do not do it in the case of Polanski and that they do it in the case of Ladj Ly, "she continued, all the while on the fact that his past conviction should not" penalize "him. In 2011, the director had indeed been sentenced to a prison sentence for kidnapping and forcible confinement.
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The offended Generation author also returned to the award of the Cesar for best director to Roman Polanski, absent during the ceremony. "It was really at the time of the celebration and the reward of the realizing man that there was this discomfort. And honestly, if there is a legitimate offense ... I think we can understand the Adèle Haenel’s reaction. It’s a slap in the face for her speech, even if I think she’s right to say that it’s a slap in the face for rape victims, "said Caroline Fourest in reference. at the departure of the actress from the room at the time of the award of the prize to Roman Polanski. "Shame," she exclaimed about the choice of director accused in particular of rape.
"There was the idea that we should judge cinema first of all"
"That does not mean that the members of the Academy of voters wanted to give him this slap. I sincerely think that in a large part of the vote of these members of the Academy, there was the idea that we should to judge the cinema above all, art above all, without turning into a court ", considered Caroline Fourest. For her, the fact that justice has not ruled on the alleged facts, which are sometimes prescribed or not given rise to a complaint, explains that "society feels invested with additional responsibility."