Thursday February 8, “Le Monde” revealed the testimonies of actresses Judith Godrèche, Anna Mouglalis and Isild Le Besco against the director Jacques Doillon. They accuse the director of sexual violence. The latter reacted in a press release.
French cinema is shaken by a new affair. After Christophe Ruggia, Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Jacquot and Philippe Caubère, it is the director Jacques Doillon who sees himself accused of sexual violence after the publication of an investigation by World, February 8. The actress Judith Godrèche, who filed a complaint against Benoît Jacquot for violent rape, also accuses Jacques Doillon of having sexually assaulted her. At the microphone of France Inter, the one who told her story in the series Icon of French Cinema (Arte) says she was abused “twice in the house” by Jacques Doillon when she was 14 years old. Subsequently, the director would have thanked the main actor of The 15 year old girl to turn “45 takes” of a sex scene with her. According to her, the director wanted “the same thing” that Benoît Jacquotwith whom she had a relationship between the ages of 14 and 20.
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Two other actresses, Isild Le Besco and Anna Mouglalis, also testified against Jane Birkin’s former companion. The first accuses Jacques Doillon of having removed her from a project after her refusal to sleep with him, while the second claims that he kissed her by force. If it was first Jacques Doillon’s lawyer who spoke in the press, the latter also came out of silenceFriday February 9, in a press release sent to AFP. “May Judith Godrèche and other women through her are keen to denounce a system, an era, a society, is courageous, laudable and necessary. But the justness of the cause does not authorize arbitrary denunciationsfalse accusations and lies”he writes.
“Grotesque” accusations according to Jacques Doillon
According to Lou Doillon’s father, the scene denounced by Judith Godrèche was planned in the script of The 15 year old girl and he would have “terminated the engagement” of the main actor of The 15-year-old girl “at the end of the first week of filming due to insufficiently clear texts and problems of rhythm which did not match that of the adolescents”. He would have taken up this role at the request of his producer, otherwise the filming would have been interrupted. Jacques Doillon also claims that Isild Le Besco “had made people believe that she was being held on another shoot while she was on vacation” and refutes the accusations of Anna Mouglalis, which he describes as “grotesques”. A preliminary investigation was opened for the facts described by Judith Godrèche.
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