“Adèle Haenel is aligned with her fights”: Garance Marillier, the heroine of Grave, and soon to star in Marinette, supports her. Adèle Haenel has announced that she is politicizing her stoppage of cinema in a letter that has gone viral.
“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. East“, launched Adèle Haenel, at the beginning of the week to confirm and formalize her withdrawal from the world of cinema, in a letter addressed to the magazine Télérama.
This political and radical letter very quickly went viral, like Virginie Despentes’ “We get up and we break”, has aroused a lot of reactions since it was put online on May 9.
At 34, Adèle Haenel stops her acting career: “I decided to politicize my stoppage of the cinema”
On the occasion of a meeting with Garance Marillier, a young actress belonging to the same generation as Adèle Haenel, we collected the testimony of the heroine of Grave.
She supports him:Of course I admire his words, his fights“.
“It’s someone who is aligned with his fights, who goes after it“, developed Garance Marillier at the microphone of AlloCiné. I feel like she’s found some sort of alignment between her activism and her public life. “Obviously I admire his words, his fights.“
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Adele Haenel
If Adèle Haenel stops the cinema, the actress will continue her theatrical collaboration with the artist Gisèle Vienne. “Faced with the detachment, vacuity and cruelty that the film industry sets up as an operating principle, the meaning, the work and the beauty that it constantly puts into play are a light that allows me to keep faith in what the power of art can mean“, concluded Adèle Haenel.
Garance Marillier, revealed with the film Grave by Julia Ducournau, then seen in Titane, Palme d’or, will be showing on June 7 in the film Marinette, dedicated to the football player Marinette Pichon. Our full interview with Garance Marillier will be available for the release of the film.
Interview in Paris, May 12, 2023