Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: Andréa Bescond and Éric Metayer denounce pedophilia and sexual violence.
By listening to Andréa Bescond tell him about the sexual violence she suffered as a child as well as her reconstruction as an adult, Eric Métayer, her companion, understands that her testimony can help other victims. He encourages her to write a play about her experience, while he designs the production.
In 2014, Tickling or the Dance of Anger was presented at the Avignon Festival, before achieving great success with the public, but also with critics who awarded it the Molière solo on stage. Attending one of the performances, producer François Kraus suggested that Andréa Bescond and Eric Métayer adapt their play for the cinema.
This then allows the authors to adopt different angles and develop secondary characters and themes to create an ensemble film. If the story still relates the abuse suffered by Odette, 8 years old, at the hands of a family friend, played by Pierre Deladonchamps, it also deals with the way in which a family breaks up or even the share of responsibility and guilt of each through the parental couple formed on screen by Clovis Cornillac and Karin Viard (winner of the César for Best Supporting Actress for her performance).
Released in 2018, Les Chatouilles is a real slap in the face, both brutal and tender, painful and supercharged. The staging is fully at the service of a punchy speech, sometimes cruel, but carrying an extraordinary message of hope and resilience.
Awarded the César for Best Adaptation, the film touches a wider audience right in the heart and helps open up the debate around sexual violence against minors a little more. On AlloCiné, Tickles holds a solid average viewer rating of 4.1/5.
Tickles by Andréa Bescond, Eric Métayer with Andréa Bescond, Karin Viard, Clovis Cornillac…
Tonight on France 2 at 9:10 p.m.