For Toujours à la page, Isild Le Besco discusses “Dire Vrai”, a moving testimony about the abuse she suffered in the film industry. The actress, screenwriter and director will be at the Librairie Notre Temps on Thursday, July 4 at 7 p.m. #book #meeting #metoo.
Isild Le Besco, is an actress, screenwriter, director. She was revealed to the public in 2000 in the film Sade by Benoit Jacquot. Benoit Jacquot, this name brings us back to the #metoo wave that has been making headlines this year with the leading figure of actress and director Judith Godrèche, who filed a complaint against the director for violent rape of a minor, revealing, beyond the actions of one man, a whole perverse system of abuse that has been trivialized and passed over in silence in the film industry.
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At the heart of the “Jacquot Scandal”, the name of Isild Le Besco arose, despite herself. This is why she decided to tell her version of things: the story of the control of an adolescent girl, skillfully orchestrated by a man over fifty-five years old, the manipulation, the rapes, the violence. physical. A nightmarish scenario, from which the young actress cannot escape. She does not have weapons, she is not protected by her parents and is already the subject of domestic violence.
Say true by Isild Le Besco is a poignant and revolting testimony. It is also the story of a trigger, of a process which allowed the actress to become aware of what she had suffered, to accept it and to confront it. Finally, and we can never say it enough, it is a reminder for everyone of the need to listen and, beyond that, to be vigilant, because very often the victims are not in a state of ‘Call for help.
Dire Vrai by Isild le Besco has been published by Denoël and will be available on Thursday July 4, 2024 at 7 p.m. at the Notre Temps bookstore in Valence.
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