It is the burning subject of incest, and the omerta which is law in many families, which Muriel Robin tackles. in the TV movie Eyes wide closed, broadcast Monday October 2, 2023 on TF1. She plays Anne-Marie, a grandmother discovering the unthinkable among her descendants: her son Stéphane commits sexual assault on her own son, Adrien. Turn a blind eye to your son’s actions, or denounce and protect your grandson? The character played by the actress finds herself prey to a dilemma which often leads witnesses to remain silent, stifling the unspeakable in disregard of the suffering of the victims. Children who today number in the millions in France. “I played a role to serve a story and a subject. On the other hand, women who encounter this in life then… Most often, they choose silence and that’s the whole problem with this scourge. The child is in pain. He experiences things he should never experience and he experiences them alone because everyone is silent. We have the figures now, it’s between 4 and 6 million children victims of incest and to have that many victims, you need incestors.”explains the 68-year-old actress at the microphone of Julia Vignali on Europe 1 Saturday September 30, 2023.
Muriel Robin: “Incest happens in any environment”
Known for her numerous commitments, Muriel Robin hopes, through this fiction, to move the lines by breaking the taboo which reigns supreme in the families concerned. Families from all walks of life, who often hide under the veneer of normality, and for whom it is urgent to free their voices. “Incest happens in any environment, and it happens to one in ten children”, recalls the actress. In an interview with the newspaper Humanity Wednesday September 27, 2023, she further denounces:“As with domestic violence, there will be awareness about incest. And justice will have to believe the women. Because today if the mother denounces acts of incest, she is suspected. According to the judges, it is revenge, parental alienation. She’s the one who’s going to be bothered. Conclusion: 1% of attackers are punished. 99% of them are quiet”. A staggering figure which testifies to the scale of the problem, which more and more directors are tackling in order to move things forward.