Vanessa Springora's "Consent" will be adapted for the big screen

The Consent, a shocking book by Vanessa Springora, will be brought to the screen. This autofiction, which traces the relationship of the author under the influence of the writer Gabriel Matzneff when she was a teenager, is scheduled for 2021 in theaters, announced Monday on Instagram the producers Carole Lambert and Marc Missonnier, confirming a information from the review Le Film Français .

Proud to announce the adaptation of Vanessa Springora's work “Le Consentement” by Vanessa Filho, produced with Carole Lambert. pic.twitter.com/2g8lDYYHnz

This autobiographical novel, published by Grasset editions, sold more than 180,000 copies and caused an electric shock, highlighting the subject of sexual violence against minors and the complacency that Gabriel Matzneff has enjoyed in the literary world. The film rights for the book have been transferred to production companies Windy and Moana Films.

A man with predatory behavior

The production and the script of this feature film were entrusted to the director Vanessa Filho, revealed in 2018 in Cannes with Gueule d'ange , presented in the Un Certain Regard section. The casting is not yet stopped. In Le Consentement , Vanessa Springora tells how she was seduced by Gabriel Matzneff when she was not yet 14 years old, in the 1980s.

The day after the publication of the book in early January, the Paris prosecutor's office had opened an investigation for "rapes committed on minors under 15 years". Vanessa Springora's book depicts a man with predatory behavior, also engaged in sex tourism in Asia. Vanessa Springora is the first to testify among the teenage girls seduced by Gabriel Matzneff, whose behavior, described in his own books, has long been tolerated in the Parisian literary world. In 2013, he won the Renaudot prize for the essay.

For Vanessa Springora, "this book was an enterprise of honesty towards (herself), since it was the occasion to (oneself) reappropriate (her) history". “  Consent  has allowed me to reinvent myself. Today, I have the impression that a chapter has closed, which allows me to move on to something else, but who is still me, ”she added in an interview with JDD published on Sunday. .

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