2023-12-15 19:18:04
Beyond the shocking remarks revealed by the documentary Gérard Depardieu, the fall of an ogrethese images reinforce the words, often doubted, of women accusing the French actor of sexual violence and show what people undergo sexually harassed by a star, according to the director of the documentary, Damien Fleurette.
In recent years, in the wake of the #metoo wave, several personalities from the cultural world have fallen from grace due to sexual misconduct. Until now, the general public had discovered this reality through the words of victims, but had not yet seen it with their own eyes.
However, in Gérard Depardieu, the fall of an ogrethe actor, who nevertheless knows that he is being filmed, engages in obscene behavior and makes insulting remarks towards women during a trip to North Korea in 2018. The documentary will be presented at the Grands reports on ICI RDI, Tuesday at 8 p.m. EST, and on ICI TOU.TV.
For the first time, we see what harassment actually looks like [commis par] a public figure, explained Daniel Fleurette on Friday in an interview with All one morning.
This is extremely important, because even in the case of Harvey Weinstein, we heard audio recordings, but we never saw images, he added.
Pervasive sexual remarks
In total, 18 hours of film were shot during Gérard Depardieu’s trip to North Korea, as part of a film that never saw the light of day.
We realized that, in almost all cases, as soon as there was a woman, Gérard Depardieu drifted into the sexual register and, very often, it amounted to sexual harassment.
As soon as he meets a guide, a Korean woman, a passing tourist, he will make a sexual remark directly to the woman he meets or he will make sexual jokes out loud to the people around him by targeting the woman in front of him, he continued.
Denounced by multiple women
For Damien Fleurette, revealing these previously unpublished images is all the more important as the words of victims of sexual violence often remain contested.
Since 2018, the young actress Charlotte Arnould has accused Gérard Depardieu of rape and sexual assault. Last April, the French news site Mediapart reported the testimonies of 13 women claiming to have suffered inappropriate sexual gestures or comments from the famous actor.
Their word has often been doubted. There was always an element of suspicion: “Are these women adding more?”, explained Damien Fleurette.
These images give new credibility to this word. Suddenly, we see what the women who accused Depardieu were faced with.
But, it’s Gérard…
Until then, Gérard Depardieu has benefited from the indulgence of a large part of the French cinema community. Film producers, people who work with Depardieu, have said a lot: “But Depardieu is someone by nature, raw, these women did not understand that they were facing someone one that was in the tone of humor,” said Damien Fleurette.
I think it’s an excuse that “worked” when we hadn’t seen these images. Suddenly, we realize that “it’s Gérard”, these are often very problematic, degrading comments.
Before finalizing his documentary, Damien Fleurette tried to obtain a reaction from the main person concerned. However, Gérard Depardieu did not respond to his calls. We even went to ring his house so we could talk to him, said the director. The actor, however, refused to speak.
Shame on France
The diffusion of Gérard Depardieu, the fall of an ogreon the France 2 channel, as part of the show Further investigationcaused a stir in France.
The French Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul-Malak, judged on Friday that the words and attitude of Gérard Depardieu revealed in the program shamed France.
She denounced the absolutely shocking comments that we saw in this report, an attitude which is intended to be joking and provocative, but which is in fact quite disrespectful and undignified, and which shames France. .
In Quebec, the Council of the National Order of Quebec recommended, on Wednesday, the removal of Gérard Depardieu from this order.
The actor was made a knight of the National Order of Quebec in 2002 by Bernard Landry, then Prime Minister of Quebec.
With information from Agence France-Presse
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