Judith Godrèche has freed her voice and she intends to continue the movement.
According to information from Public Senate, the actress will be heard by the Senate on Thursday, February 29, at 9 a.m.
At the beginning of the month, the 51-year-old actress confirmed having filed a complaint against director Benoît Jacquot for "violent rape of a minor under the age of 15", prompting the opening of an investigation.
“Hearing her testimony is important, because the members of the delegation are working to ensure that the situations of violence against minors that she describes no longer happen and are punished,” explained the president of the delegation Dominique Vérien, a centrist senator, according to reports. remarks relayed by Public Senate.
Two complaints
For the past two weeks, the former muse of auteur cinema has been carrying out interviews in which she calls French cinema into question.
After filing a complaint against Benoît Jacquot, with whom she had a relationship when she was only 14 years old and he was 25 years older, Judith Godrèche also filed a complaint against Jacques Doillon for rape of a minor.
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She was 15 years old when she starred in the film "The 15-year-old Girl", released in 1989. According to the actress' account on France Inter, the director would have changed the casting and the script to shoot a scene sex with the actress who is still a teenager.
If the two directors involved denied it, Judith Grodèche's speeches encouraged some of her colleagues to speak out.
Isild Le Besco and Anna Mouglalis thus pointed out the behavior of Jacques Doillon in an article in Le Monde.