French actor Judith Godreche has pressed expenses towards movie director Benoit Jacquot 25 years her senior, accusing him of raping her when she was a youngster, her lawyer stated Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the 51-year-old actress lodged a proper criticism with the Juvenile Protection Brigade (BPM) for suspected rape of a minor by an individual able of authority, lawyer Laure Heinich instructed AFP.
The announcement comes as French cinema is reeling from claims the world of arts has shrugged off sexism and sexual abuse for many years.
Taking to social media in January, Godreche accused Jacquot, now 77, of manipulating her right into a relationship as a susceptible underage actor, saying the humanities have offered cowl for abuse.
French every day Le Monde, which first carried the story of the formal criticism, stated that Jacquot “firmly” denies the allegations. Jacquot declined to talk to AFP when requested to remark in January.
The relationship between the 2 started within the spring of 1986, when Godrech was simply 14, and ended within the early Nineteen Nineties.
Godreche stated she remained “in his grip” for six years, starring in two movies he directed, “Les Mendiants” (“The beggars”) in 1988 and “La Desenchantee” (“The disenchanted”) in 1990.
She determined to talk out after discovering him boasting about their relationship being a “transgression”, and cinema offering a “cover” for it, in a 2011 documentary.
“I threw up,” Godreche has instructed the TMC tv channel, seeing him take pleasure in such “impunity”.
“Consent does not exist when you’re 14,” she stated. “I wasn’t seduced, I was completely manipulated.”
Jacquot, a director with greater than 50 movies and TV movies to his identify, has stated he must be “in love” along with his actresses to movie them.
He has labored with established heavyweights resembling Catherine Deneuve and Isabelle Huppert, but in addition Godreche, Virginie Ledoyen — recognized for the 2000 thriller “The Beach” — and Isild Le Besco as youngsters.
In 2015, he described his work as “pushing an actress to pass a threshold. The best way to do all that is to be in the same bed.”
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