A famous author harasses a young agent. It goes public, gains a large audience, but in the end hostilities prevail on the beast Internet. Nothing beats male solidarity. The author first plays innocence pursued, then he renounces drug and alcohol consumption. In the end, not only did the scandal not harm him, but he sold three times as many books. After all, the unsympathetic Oscar gains something like insight in the course of Virginie Despentes’ letter novel “Dear Asshole”.
He badly needs it, because apart from young women at the publishing house, he also molests famous actresses. He writes an insulting public comment to the legendary Rebecca Latté, his sister’s childhood friend. The beginning of a mediocre penpal relationship. If Despente’s “Vernon-Subutex” trilogy was a milieu study of the Paris art and drug world in the form of a novel, these and other topics are now dealt with in letters between author and actress. The simple-minded Oscar “doesn’t understand the feminist stuff” and strikes her as “a suffering princess”. He laments the lack of motherly love and social injustice, she complains that at fifty she is too old and fat for the film industry and can no longer tolerate heroin. In between, one reads the press agent’s postings about “the power of the white puny”. Sounds bland, it is. Except for Rebecca, obviously drawn from the portrait of the actress Béatrice Dalle. She has humor, sometimes differentiated, sometimes rough: “Men my age are not only ugly, they’re also annoying.”