“Jacques Doillon is a perverse figure”

Why now? While director Jacques Doillon is the target of several complaints for rape, attempted rape and sexual violence for acts that allegedly took place between 1980 and 2012, the question arises as to the timing of the publication of Cruel game (Robert Laffont). In this investigative story, columnist, writer and college teacher Mara Goyet describes the filming conditions under her direction Family Life in 1984, the summer she turned 10, and the trauma that has followed for her since then. The question of speaking out now is “at the heart of (his) book”, she says. Specifying from the outset that, in her case, she was not raped. But suffered an incestuous climate and violence that have traumatized her until now. To the point of never having filmed again, of never having spoken about this experience on which she put a lid.

For thirty years, Mara Goyet has been teaching history and geography in middle school. A job she loves, started in Seine-Saint-Denis…