2023-09-24 20:00:08
Anastasia Mikova and Emmanuelle Béart in “Un silence si bois”. HIGH AND SHORT
M6 – SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 24 AT 11:00 P.M. – DOCUMENTARY
Here it is finally, this documentary that everyone is talking about but that (almost) no one has seen yet. This film where actress Emmanuelle Béart speaks to break the “silence so loud” in which, like so many victims of incest, she recognizes that she had been closeted since her adolescence.
The one who was Caesarized at 23 years old for Manon des Sources (1986), in 1987, at the age of 60, played his most beautiful role: himself. In a delicate production by Anastasia Mikova, who was able to convince her that a documentary was “the fairest format” – and the most powerful, broadcast on a major channel to reach a vast audience, to encourage millions of victims to finally speak out. As do the four people, three women and a man, who testify openly in front of the camera.
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One of the striking scenes shows the actress, facing a peaceful lake, in an accomplice dialogue with a teenage girl who was abused by her father between the ages of 4 and 8. Like a generational passing of the baton. This film, confides Emmanuelle Béart in a soft voice, “I did it out of love for the child I was.”
Procedure and denial
The four “anonymous people”, of whom only their first names are mentioned, tell us about the children they too were. These “circles of silence” – personal, family, societal – which took a long time to break. Everyone evokes their story, the way of telling it, of getting out of it and finally getting out of it, perhaps. To try to “twist the neck of [ses] névroses », Norma, 31, raped by her grandfather between the ages of 3 and 12, ended up turning it into a stand-up show. Title : Norma[le]as an arm of honor to those who wanted « [lui] confiscate [sa] vie ».
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The forty-year-old Joachim recalls these videos where his father filmed him naked in the shower when he was 8 years old, his mother kissing him “on the mouth, sometimes with the tongue”. So much tangible evidence in the procedure which opposes him to his parents in denial, still alive but of whom he has “already mourned”. “We think we’re going crazy”, repeats Pascale, abused by her father at 11 years old, and who is barely coming out of her amnesia at 56 years old. Sarah – the mother of the teenager cited above – castigates a justice system which, “by his inaction, becomes an accomplice”.
It is ultimately Emmanuelle Béart who says the least. But she’s not here for that. “At first, she didn’t even want to be on screen! », recalls the director. His presence and his voice punctuate the film, illustrated with animations as strong as they are poetic, representing children without mouths with a flower in place of their hearts.
The duo does not intend to stop there. Two ministries, justice and national education, are in the crosshairs. After the broadcast on M6 this evening, A silence so loud can, they say, become a training tool for judges. Or even be broadcast in educational establishments. “If the heart is touched, so is the conscience”says the actress, who joined the collective appeal published in The world, on September 7, not to sacrifice the Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence Against Children, the Ciivise, whose mandate expires in December. More voices that risk not being heard…
A public service documentary on a private channel? This clearly shows the universality of the fight to be waged to break this “silence so loud”.
A silence so noisy, by Emmanuelle Béart and Anastasia Mikova. With Norma, Pascale, Sarah, Joachim (Fr., 2023, 100 min).
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