Tuesday January 7, the film dedicated to Olympe de Gouges, “a woman in the revolution” was screened at the Véo cinema in Tulle in front of more than 200 students. The opportunity for director and actress Julie Gayet, who plays the title role, to talk to them about women's rights.
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This is the end of the film. Julie Gayet enters the room for an exchange with the 200 students present.
Students at Edmond-Perrier high school and Clemenceau college, they come to discover a character who is little talked about in history books: Olympe de Gouges.
In the Tulle cinema, after the screening of the film by and with Julie Gayet, the conversation begins on the historic role of Olympe de Gouges.
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Olympe was a humanist against injustice. She was against the death penalty. A woman of the left, a social democrat.
Julie Gayetactress and director
For middle school students, this film session and this discussion is another way of learning the history of France. “Discovering women's point of view on the Revolution is good, because in history classes, we mainly study those of men, of the king.”testifies this schoolgirl.
At her side, this high school student particularly liked the biopic on the revolutionary and woman of letters, a boost to revise before the baccalaureate: “We are working on his texts in French. This film allows you to get closer to what you are studying and learn more about it.“
Olympe de Gouges lived at the time of the Revolution. She wrote the Declaration of Women and Citizens in 1791 before ending up on the scaffold.
To interpret her character, Julie Gayet was inspired by women she met such as the filmmaker Agnès Varda, the activist Anne-Cécile Mailfert with the Women's Foundation or the Corrézienne Georgette Chastanet at SOS Violences Conjugales.
Tuesday January 7, the film dedicated to Olympe de Gouges, “a woman in the revolution” was screened at the Véo cinema in Tulle in front of more than 200 students. The opportunity for director and actress Julie Gayet, who plays the title role, to talk to them about women's rights.
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Olympe de Gouges campaigned for greater equality between men and women, but politically, it is never easy to be 200 years ahead of your contemporaries.
Julie Gayet tells it: “We put in the film that at his time, it was a revolution within the revolution to want this equality between men and women. [..] Me, I think that it’s not women who are fragile, it’s their rights.”
For Julie Gayet, this first film is an echo of the fight of today's feminists, from 2017 with the MeToo movement to the women's collectives including 50/50 to which she belongs.
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Since 2017, the Me Too movement has advanced women's rights and appears to have an impact on younger people.
Boys, men, and there, I see it in high schools, they want to participate. They ask questions and we talk about paternity leave and it's quite interesting to see that they want to get involved in this change.
Julie Gayetactress and director
The TV movie, “Olympe de Gouges, a woman in the revolution”will be broadcast on France 2 next March, on the occasion of International Women's Rights Day. This is the very first time that the revolutionary is embodied on screen.
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