Before the Senate, Judith Godrèche requests a commission of inquiry into sexual violence in cinema

Europe 1 with AFP 9:57 a.m., February 29, 2024, modified at 9:58 a.m., February 29, 2024

Judith Godrèche, who has become a leading figure in the fight against sexual violence against children since she filed a complaint, after decades of silence, against the directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon, was interviewed by the women's rights delegation at the Luxembourg Palace.

Beyond the 7th art, she paid tribute to judge Edouard Durand, the former leader of Ciivise, this independent commission on incest and sexual violence against children, in the midst of a crisis, and pleaded to protect the children victims of sexual violence.

“This incestuous cinema family is only the reflection of all these families” affected by this violence, Judith Godrèche declared to the senatorial delegation, specifying that she had received 4,500 testimonies from victims on an email address that she opened for this purpose. .

The actress asks “to set up a commission of inquiry into sexual and gender-based violence in the cinema industry”

On cinema in particular, she "requested the establishment of a commission of inquiry into sexual and gender-based violence in the cinema sector" and also "the withdrawal" of her functions as president of the National Cinematography Center (CNC) by Dominique Boutonnat.

The latter was implicated in a case, not yet judged, of alleged sexual assault on his 21-year-old godson, accusations which he contests.

He was reappointed despite this affair, to the great dismay of feminist associations.

Judith Godrèche also asked to "impose a neutral referent on filming with a minor, a referent who is not paid by the production, who is trained", and "that a child is never left alone on a set ", with "a more effective control system".

She would also like “an intimacy coach for scenes that involve” scenes of a sexual nature.