The coincidence of the calendar means that the broadcast takes place six years after the release of the film Tickles. Acclaimed by critics, praised by the public, the work of Andréa Bescond and Eric Métayer had stirred the guts of all those who had viewed it. Six years after this success, the French director has nevertheless faced the facts. Child crime has not disappeared in France. To illustrate it, the director this time looked at a true story, from which he based his new film Reportswhich will be broadcast this Wednesday, November 20 on France 2. The abominable and yet true story of Karine Jambu, raped in front of her parents when she was not yet 5 years old in Rennes. And who has never been the subject of a placement despite the countless reports made by his aunt Laurence Brunet-Jambu.
20 Minutes met the director, who still seemed upset by this story, during a preview.
How do you react to Karine’s remarks about a “lite” film in relation to its story?
She is absolutely right and it is a choice on our part. If we had gone as far into the film as what Karine experienced, we would have made something unwatchable, a film in which we couldn't breathe. If we had told Karine's true story, from what I read in the minutes, from what I read in the book, I think people would have turned off the TV. There, I think it's watchable. The film is there to send a message, it is not just there to tell people: “look how she suffered!” » If you show too much, people stop watching.
Was the objective to attack child welfare?
No, I didn't tackle Child Welfare but the story of Laurence and Karine. It was a second part that interested me. The aspect of the problem of justice, of all social authorities which are in total dysfunction. There are people who are in the dark and refuse things in all institutions. But there is also a terrible lack of resources.
When we hear that there are 170,000 child offenders convicted per year in France, we wonder how we are going to get there. This is what happens in the film when we see this judge who explains that he only has six magistrates for 300 cases. They can't process everything, it's impossible. I think of Mickey in Fantasia trying to remove water and the brooms bring it back. At some point we sink, that’s obvious.
In this film, you also send a message to men…
Yes, because I feel like we are not in this fight. To make the film a little more masculine, we changed the teacher who made Karine's reports to a man. Because otherwise, we only had women. I'm tired of hearing: let's listen to the children and nothing happens behind them. The pedophile is renewing himself. Firstly because very often, they themselves were victims of this violence when they were children. So the message behind it is: “wake up men”. I want to say “let’s act”. Because now, I'm ashamed.
In your film, you also keep a note of hope…
Yes, there is this desire to say: “fight”. In the film, we see the number of days that Karine's ordeal lasted. And we are already 4,000 days away. But in reality, it was much more! We are talking about twenty-one years of suffering since his birth.
On the issue of violence against children, the whole of society must take action, because we cannot do it alone. If tomorrow there are three million people doing a sit-in in the street and saying: “Now you find the solution”, that will change things. Only we can move them. Pedocriminals are found in all social classes, as you can imagine. A man protects a man. If we don't talk about it, we'll keep silent and leave these children in silence.
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