“Point de side”, a novel by Judith Godrèche published in 1995, will be republished in an electronic format, initially, by Flammarion.
It chronicles the end of a teenage girl's relationship with an older man.
This autobiographically inspired novel was published shortly after its author left director Benoît Jacquot, 25 years older than her.
The actress, aged 22 at the time, portrayed Juliette, a young film buff, who in her early twenties was regaining her freedom.
A misunderstood suffering
“She is a girl who lived very young with a man, who stayed with him for a very long time, and who perhaps did not have adolescence (…) She did not learn to be a woman” , described Judith Godrèche in the program Le Cercle de midnight hosted by Laure Adler on France 2, in February 1995.
Both talked about this sequence that took place on February 12 in the show C Ce Soir, on France 5, in a polite but tense exchange.
The former director of France Culture made her mea culpa because she “did not understand” the “suffering” of the actress.
Judith Godrèche filed a complaint at the beginning of February against Benoît Jacquot, 77, and another director, Jacques Doillon, 79, for “rape of a 15-year-old minor”.
“Point de side” is the only book she has published.
But she directed a lively mini-series for Arte, “Icon of French Cinema”, where she faces, with self-deprecation, the demons of her past, before shaking up the Césars.