Catherine Breillat accused of having “organized a rape” during the filming of Romance

“When the #MeToo movement started to spread, mine was rejected because it risked discrediting women’s voices. Because it is indeed a woman, a woman praised by critics and what’s more a feminist icon, that I accuse.”we can read on the back cover of the book released on August 28 Predation (Feminine noun) signed by actress Caroline Ducey, breaking 25 years of silence.

Leading actress of the sulphurous Romancea film directed by Catherine Breillat in 1998, she mentions in her book the rape she claims to have suffered during filming and incriminates the director. Romancefeatures young Caroline Ducey, then aged 21, in a frantic quest for sexual experiences in the face of her partner’s refusal to touch her.

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At the time, the film’s promotion played on ambiguity. Were the sex scenes in the film, which starred porn actor Rocco Siffredi and was not suitable for children under 16, simulated or not? “Neither in the original script nor in the contract that I will sign later, is there any question that these (sex) scenes are not simulated,” confided the actress to New Obs on August 27. However, during the filming of a sequence, “I had real cunnilingus and I lost my speech. I could have had real sodomy too but my partner didn’t continue, he understood. She (Catherine Breillat), she didn’t say anything”raconte Caroline Ducey au Parisianin an article published this Thursday, September 5.

I never imagined that a woman would attack me.

Caroline Ducey

“My responsibility is not to have been cold-hearted, to have felt confident with a woman who was my mother’s age, to not imagine that she would make me undergo what she said she wanted to denounce. When she told me before filming that she was a puritan, you might think that she would take it easy. If I had been 30, I would have realized that she was manipulating me. I would never have imagined that a woman would attack me.”believes Caroline Ducey, who points out the filmmaker’s influence coupled with betrayal.

“It’s all false. I’m going to sue. I had her consent. And everything was written for this cunnilingus scene.”declared Catherine Breillat contacted by our colleagues at Parisian. “If there is a logic specific to all predators, it is to reverse responsibilities, enchérit Caroline Ducey. Now it is time for her to take responsibility for organizing this rape. This scene caused traumatic amnesia.”