“Les Valseuses”, with Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou and Patrick Dewaere. MEUROU/SIPA
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In 1974, Bertrand Blier’s film was released on screens. What passed for a “breath of freedom” today seems terribly complacent towards sexual assault. How is this possible? Feminist critic Clémentine Gallot looked at this “case” for Nouvel Obs in March 2024, in an interview that we are republishing today.
Filmmaker Bertrand Blier died Monday January 20 at the age of 85. Last year, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the release of Les Valseuses, the “New Obs” published an interview with the critic Clémentine Gallot, about one of the director’s biggest successes, but which appears, half -century later, very complacent with the sexual assaults it shows.
◗ Article originally published on March 23, 2024
“Aren’t we okay?” Peaceful, cool, relaxed on the glans…” Fifty years ago, on March 20, 1974, the film “Les Valseuses” ended with these cult words from Gérard Depardieu. And Bertrand Blier threw, into French cinematography, a strange, transgressive, scandalous object (it was banned for those under 18), but at the same time shrouded in a singular sweetness. The mind frowns…
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