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“No, no, NO. No Benoît Jacquot,” Judith Godrèche wrote on Instagram on Saturday, lambasting the French film director. Then, describing herself in the third person, she wrote: “It didn’t excite her.”
"Consent," an adaptation of Vanessa Springora’s bestselling book which sparked a belated #MeToo moment in France, has lured major distributors.
19/11/2021 - The region’s film support fund will also throw its weight behind upcoming films by Just Philippot, Nicolas Pariser, Sébastien Lifshitz and the duo Vincent Paronnaud and Alexis Ducord
Activists in France say the lack of a clear definition of consent means few rapes are reported, and few prosecutions for the offense are successful.
How Vanessa Springora’s Consent tries to transcend the #MeToo moment it created A French memoir of sexual abuse created a political storm – but is it, as its author suggests, “first and foremost a piece of literature”? Most memoirists are burdened with the question of how to make their relatively unexceptional lives interesting enough for public consumption – a question whose answers are generally sought in the quality or distinctiveness of the prose. Vanessa Springora may have been faced with the opposite problem: the raw elements of her story are so extraordinary that the m...