Light of My Life: where are the women?

In times not so old, we would have commented on the case of Casey Affleck, severely heckled by the #MeToo wave. In 2017, Ben's younger brother was barely carried in triumph for his performance in the splendid Manchester by the Sea , doubly awarded (Golden Globe and Oscar for best actor), which he is overtaken by an old story.

The producer of her first film as a director, I'm Still Here (2010), a hoax on the retirement of her friend Joaquin Phoenix, accuses her of having fired her because she refused to sleep with him. Since then, Casey Affleck has given an act of contrition (to the tune of "I was a dirty little jerk" ) and a big check. That doesn't seem to be enough to put him back in the saddle in Hollywood. The case sticks to him. In 2019, at the Berlinale, where Light of My Life is presented in the Panorama section, the American still justifies himself at a press conference: “I am not an expert in feminist films. I wrote the script before this story came back in

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