On December 9, M6 will broadcast the documentary “The French, love and sex”produced and presented by Karine Le Marchand, and directed by Delphine Cinier. For the occasion, the host will ask a lot of questions that speak to thousands of French people today. Are the youngest among them more uninhibited than their parents? Is living as a couple while being faithful/exclusive still a model, when one in two couples divorce and infidelity seems inevitable over time? How to find your place in life as a couple, when male-female relationships are experiencing an unprecedented revolution? So many questions, and many more, that the documentary will try to answer.
Karine Le Marchand explains why she no longer believes in “heteronormative happiness”
A few weeks before the documentation of this new documentary, Karine Le Marchand agreed to share some exclusive confidences with our colleagues at Tele-Leisure. The host first assured that she no longer believed “to the loving model that past generations have known”. “We must be lucid: heteronormative happiness as it was sold to us, in the form of fairy tales, has never worked. It worked as long as women could not divorce, as long as they did not work. not and that they were forced to play the role of housewife, but they were the big losers”detailed Stéphane Plaza’s friend.
The host tempted by libertinage?
She continued rather cash on “dating applications, the #Metoo movement and the notion of consent, the end of the injunction of religion, the rise of individualism and the demand for happiness that this induces” and the fact that “all this means that we no longer love in the same way”. “Today, everything is reinvented and evolves throughout our lives. That surprised me enormously! […] When I came home in the evening after filming, I asked myself: 'Could I live with a woman? Would I take responsibility?'”, she confided bluntly.
And to specify: “It’s a documentary that questions a lot about oneself. I’m much more open-minded now than at the start of the project”. Speaking of open-mindedness, Karine Le Marchand admitted that she is now somewhat lost. “Besides, I don’t really know what I like anymore!”she joked. Then to conclude on a taboo subject with a lot of transparency: “I asked myself the question of libertinism. If I wasn’t known, I would try!”. That's what it says!
