Tongues continue to be loosened.
Motivated by the testimony of Judith Godrèche against the filmmakers Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon, the actress Sarah Grappin accused in
L'Obs
this Tuesday, February 13, the director Alain Corneau of sexual assault and rape.
She also denounces the influence the filmmaker had over her in the 1990s when she was only 16 and he was 52.
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The 45-year-old actress says she clicked after reading
Le Consentement
, by Vanessa Spingora, and after reading Judith Godrèche's story.
According to Sarah Grappin, the relationship that Judith Godrèche had with Benoît Jacquot was similar to the one she had with Alain Corneau, who gave her her first role in
Le Nouveau Monde
, in 1994.
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“I told myself a great love story to survive”
During this filming, Sarah Grappin notably recounts having been kissed for the first time by the filmmaker, awarded a few years earlier by the César for best director for
Tous les Matins du Monde
, in 1992. Between two management trucks, Alain Corneau would have asked him “Do you want to kiss me?”, she remembers in the columns of the weekly.
From there, a relationship of a year and a half would have started, during which the director invited him to a restaurant, to the cinema, or to his home.
A period during which Sarah Grappin describes rape and sexual assault at the hands of the director.
Scene from the film
Le Nouveau Monde
, by director Alain Corneau, with actors Nicolas Chatel and Sarah Grappin.
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“Once he greeted me in an Indian sari, he sat cross-legged and put me astride him.
He penetrated me with his fingers from the front, from the back, and he said that we would not go any further,” she explains.
She also mentions digital penetrations on two other occasions in Alain Corneau's car.
These meetings would have, each time, taken place when the filmmaker's companion, Nadine Trintignant, was absent.
“For a very long time, I went beyond embellishing, I told myself a great love story to survive.
The work of recent years has been to come out of denial,” Sarah Grappin says with hindsight today.
Regarding the director's death in 2010, the actress continued: "I understood that day that I would have no real reparation, that he would never come to apologize, that I would never be able to apologize to him. talk."
Contacted by
L'Obs
, Nadine Trintignant refutes these accusations.
“I hear this nonsense from all sides, not at all about Alain, but about lots of people and I don’t want to take part in all that.
This is all ridiculous.
It's not against you, but it's against the way people say nonsense.
I don’t want people to say anything, especially about my husband, who is dead and can no longer defend himself.”