The Cinémathèque cancels the screening of two films by Benoît Jacquot

Following the accusations of Judith Godrèche, the institution deprograms Les Ailes de la colombe and Suzanna Andler.

“I’ve been talking for some time, but I can’t hear you,” had pleaded Judith Godreche during the 2024 Césars ceremony. And it seems that since then, tongues have been loosening more and more with, in particular, the hearing of the actress before the senatorial delegation for women's rights, the postponement sine die of the exit of CE2the latest film by Jacques Doillon whom she accuses of sexual assault, but also, the movement #MeTooBoy on social networks.

Yesterday, the Cinémathèque proved that it was listening by canceling the screening of two films by Benoît Jacquotan information Release. The daily reports the institution's concise press release: “The Cinémathèque française cancels the screening of the film on Wings of the dove by Benoît Jacquot on Wednesday March 13 at 2 p.m.. A restored version of the 1981 film featuring Isabelle Huppert was to be shown as part of the 2024 edition of its festival “classic”presented by Caroline Champetier, the film's director of photography and who also participated in its restoration. At the same time, the Cinémathèque also canceled the screening of Suzanne Andler scheduled for next May.

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Benoît Jacquot is the subject of a complaint filed on February 6 by Judith Godrèche for “Violent rape of a minor under 15”. In his series Icon of French Cinema, the actress already looked back on her relationship with the French director: she was fourteen and he was forty. Her accusations were followed by testimonies from other actresses concerning the director's conduct, and a flood of indignation on social networks.

A mass reaction which seems to have put enough pressure on the management of the cinema library to take a radical decision, while in 2017, Frédéric Bonnaud, the director of the institution opposed the cancellation of the Roman Polanski retrospective. Note that a year later, he backpedaled by canceling the Jean-Claude Brisseau retrospective, convicted of sexual harassment and assault.

“Unmissable, even today, Benoît Jacquot?”questioned Hélène Devynck, author of an essay on the PPDA affair on X (the former Twitter) a few days ago. In any case, for the moment the release of his next film, Beautifulwith Charlotte Gainsbourg And Guillaume Canetdoes not yet have a release date, which the distributor did not wish to order, reports FranceInfo.

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