She had refused to do so for four months. But on Saturday, Judith Godrèche wrote her name in big letters on her Instagram account: "The little girl in me can no longer keep this name quiet. His name is Benoît Jacquot. The same one she evokes in a whisper in her series "Icon of French Cinema", which is a hit on Arte.tv — now 1 million viewers since its launch on the Franco-German channel's platform on December 21 — which is accompanied by a great movement of support for a community of women of all ages, anonymous or known.
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The series tells, in a tone full of self-mockery, how the 51-year-old actress, former "icon of French cinema" when she was a teenager, tries a return to France after ten years in the United States. The fiction also looks back at this time when, at the age of 14, she lived with a 42-year-old director, the director of "The Disenchanted". But without ever mentioning the name of Benoît Jacquot, in fiction. Which she hasn't done since September, when the series began to be promoted.
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