Adèle Haenel stops the cinema, because it contributes to a “deadly racist ecocide order”

2023-05-09 15:33:00

Three years after her outburst during the César 2020, Adèle Haenel decided to end her acting career for political reasons.

By Maeliss Innocenti for Le Point

Adèle Haenel has decided to go on strike from French cinema.
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Published on 05/09/2023 at 3:33 p.m.

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MBut where did Adèle Haenel go? This question, which some cinema aficionados have been asking themselves for months, finally has an answer. And it was the actress herself who brought it. In a column published by Telerama, she took the floor and announced that she was retiring from the world of cinema for good. For what ? For political reasons and personal convictions. These same reasons which had pushed her, in 2020, to leave the Cesar ceremony when the coronation of Roman Polanski had been announced on stage.

“I decided to politicize my stop of the cinema to denounce the general complacency of the profession vis-à-vis sexual aggressors and more generally, the way in which this medium collaborates with the deadly racist ecocide order of the world as it is. “, she explains as well.

“I cancel you from my world”

The actress, winner of a César twice (best actress in a supporting role for Suzanne in 2014, best actress for The fighters in 2015), above all deplores in this forum the obsession of cinema with wanting to remain “light” and above all not wanting to talk about “nothing” that can count or make things happen.

READ ALSOPrescription: why the “great law of forgetting” is increasingly contestedIn his letter, the artist highlights all his struggles. It targets the inaction of States in the face of climate change, the trivialization of violence and war, but also the lack of reaction to the rights of women violated.

“I’m canceling you from my world. I’m leaving, I’m going on strike, ”she also wrote, just after renewing her Caesar reaction: “Shame! She also declared: “Faced with the bourgeoisie’s monopoly of speech and finances, I have no other weapons than my body and my integrity. From cancel culture in the first sense: you have the money, the strength and all the glory, you gargle about it, but you won’t have me as a spectator. I cancel you from my world. I leave, I go on strike, I join my comrades for whom the search for meaning and dignity takes precedence over that of money and power. »

This forum, which sounds like a cry of alarm, targets capitalism as one of the main culprits for the breakdown of the system: “To continue to make this system desirable is criminal. There is an emergency: there is no more viable future for anyone in the very short term within the framework of capitalism. It is urgent to vocalize this alarm as loud as possible. »