2024-05-05 01:49:06
The actress Isild Le Besco She recounted in an autobiography published yesterday that film director Benoit Jacquot raped her when she was a teenager, but stated that she is not prepared to file a complaint.
These memoirs were published at a time when the french cinema is shaken by accusations of having maintained silence for many years on the sexual assaults in the industry.
Le Besco, 41, in February accused Jacquot, 77, of exercising “destructive” domination over her decades ago when the actress was 16 and he was 52.
Then, he pointed out that there was psychological and physical violence, but he did not mention rape.
Jacquot, director of films such as Sade y Goodbye to the Queendenied any abuse against the actress.
Le Besco acted under the direction of Jacquot in the 2000 film that portrays the libertine life of the Marquis de Sade.
She pointed out the director after her colleague Judith Godreche, 52, accused the well-known filmmaker of sexual violence in the context of a relationship when she was 14 years old and he was 25 years older. But she did file a complaint and there is an ongoing investigation against Jacquot, who denies the charges.
In his memoirs titled Say true (Tell the Truth) clarified: “It is obvious to affirm that Benedict he raped me I was a teenager and I trusted him completely. He took the place of my father, my mother and every other authority figure.
In that sense, her rape was also incestuous.”
She added that: “I do not want to be confronted again with these ancient institutions, designed and governed by men.”
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