The book has made a lot of noise since its publication in early January. "Le Consentement", in which Vanessa Springora tells how, from the age of 13 to 15, she had a relationship with the writer Gabriel Matzneff, thirty-six years older than her, will be adapted for cinema by Vanessa Filho. The 40-year-old director, who had signed the very sensitive “Gueule d'ange” with Marion Cotillard, in May 2018, is currently co-writing her screenplay with François Pirot, the director of “Mobile Home” (2012) and co-writer of " Angel Face ". Filming is scheduled to begin in 2021.
In "Consent", sold over 180,000 copies in bookstores, the editor Vanessa Springora, now aged 48, analyzes the suffering and guilt that her affair with the one she was in love with, without see him first as a sexual predator. The producers specify that the adaptation of this autobiographical story will retrace "the triple predation: sexual, literary and psychic" of which Vanessa Springora was a victim, but will also question "the drifts of an era (Editor's note: the mid-1980s) and the complacency of an environment blinded by talent and celebrity ”.
PODCAST. Gabriel Matzneff affair: the reconstruction of Vanessa Springora through writing
A few weeks after the publication of the "Consent", the Paris prosecutor's office had opened an investigation for "rape of a minor" under 15 years against Gabriel Matzneff, now 83 years old. In recent days, the "Matzneff affair" has returned to the news through the resignation of Christophe Girard, deputy for culture at the mayor of Paris. It is because the latter was heard as a witness in the investigation targeting Matzneff that elected environmentalists and feminists had requested his suspension. Christophe Girard was questioned by the judicial police in March as the former secretary general of the Yves Saint Laurent house, a structure which financially helped Gabriel Matzneff in the 1980s.