The film, which is released in theaters, is important for “raising awareness of violence against minors”, believes the author.
“In the cinema, we can achieve this violence”. Guest of France Inter on Wednesday October 11, Vanessa Springora believes that the film The consent, adapted from his book of the same name, allows us to show the “shock” what represents her traumatic relationship, at 14, with the writer Gabriel Matzneff, 36 years her senior. “What perhaps, out of modesty, I did not dig into as much as I would have liked to do”, explains the author and editor, who collaborated on the script.
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The feature film, in theaters Wednesday, “brings something that words, perhaps, cannot achieve in the same way, it is this frontality of the image”. It is important for “awareness of violence against minors, sexual violence experienced by minors” because “this story is as emblematic of that of many young girls, as there are thousands.” “
“It’s not just my story.”
Vanessa Springora, author of ‘Consent’on France Inter
In Vanessa Springora’s book, and in the film based on it, Gabriel Matzneff says that he has with him a handwritten letter from the president of the time, François Mitterrand, and that he is ready to show it to the juvenile brigade, in the event of a problem. “This letter existed, I saw it, he himself spoke about it in his books”, says the writer. “However, François Mitterrand had distanced himself from him for quite a while,” she says.
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The socialist president “affirmed his full support for Denise Bombardier”she indicates, in reference to a sequence from the show Apostrophes, of which she was one of the guests. The Quebec author opposed it, alone, to Gabriel Matzneff. “I think these little girls are withered, and most of them will be withered for the rest of their lives.”she snapped, in response to the writer, who boasted of his very young conquests.
Denise Bombardier, whom she met in 2020, told her “that she had already had, at the time, marks of respect, notably from François Mitterrand”. “He called her the next day” of the broadcast of this program “to invite her to the Élysée and tell her that she was completely right to express herself in this way.”