After the Depardieu scandal, the Jacquot affair.
A month after the controversy sparked by Gérard Depardieu's obscene remarks reported in “Complément d'investigation”, French cinema is shaken by a new storm.
This time, it is Benoît Jacquot, 77 years old, director of “Tosca”, “Villa Amalia” or “Les Adieux à la Reine”, who is the target of several accusations and by a complaint from the actress Judith Godrèche for “Violent rape of a minor under 15 years of age.
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The actress, now 51 years old, revealed that she began a relationship with the filmmaker when she was 14 and he was 40 and remained in a relationship with him for six years.
“I was indoctrinated,” she confided this Thursday on France Inter.
In Le Monde this week, she accuses Jacquot of having inflicted slaps, punches, belts and sexual abuse on her.
Within this investigation, other actresses testify against the director.
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