Sexual abuse | Judith Godrèche calls into question a second director

(Paris) French actress Judith Godrèche on Thursday questioned the behavior towards her of director Jacques Doillon, when he was directing her and she was fifteen years old, the day after the announcement of an investigation against another filmmaker she accuses, Benoît Jacquot.

The Paris prosecutor’s office opened this investigation after the actress’ complaint of rape of a minor against Benoît Jacquot, who is 25 years older than her, directed her on screen and maintained a relationship with her for several years from the age of 14.

Thursday, the actress reiterated on France Inter radio her accusations against this filmmaker and implicated another director of the same generation, Jacques Doillon, 79 years old.

The facts she mentioned date back to the filming of The 15 year old girlreleased in 1989, and filmed when Judith Godrèche was 15 years old, and was in a relationship with Benoît Jacquot.

She recounted an intimate scene shot with Jacques Doillon, in the presence of Jane Birkin, who was then the director’s partner. “All of a sudden, he decides that there is a love scene, a sex scene between him and me,” she said. “I take off my sweater, I’m shirtless, he gropes me, makes out with me,” she added.

Asked whether Mr. Doillon had “abused” her, she acquiesced.

THURSDAY, The world also publishes new testimonies on the behavior of Benoît Jacquot, author of Farewell to the queen or Diary of a Maid.

The actress and screenwriter Julia Roy, who is 42 years younger than him and has played in four of his films, denounces “verbal and physical violence”: insults and threats, kicks and slaps, throwing chairs and dishes.

The actress and director Isild le Besco, who shot six films with Benoît Jacquot, sent a daily text in which she talks about “psychological or physical violence”.

Neither Benoît Jacquot nor Jacques Doillon could immediately be reached by AFP.

In The worldBenoît Jacquot, 77, speaks of “a kick in the ass” to Julia Roy, and denies any physical violence against Isild le Besco.

These testimonies come in the wake of other accusations from the #metoo of French cinema, which have targeted other important personalities of the 7 in recent weeks.^e art.

Gérard Depardieu, indicted for rape since the end of 2020, was pilloried for sequences filmed in North Korea, where he made multiple misogynistic and insulting remarks while addressing women.