“Dear Judith Godrèche…” In a story that she posted on Instagram this Friday, February 23, 2024, Anouchka Delon, who was one of the viewers of the 49th César ceremony, wanted to take a position following the poignant speech given by Judith Godrèche. For several weeks, the actress and ex-wife of Dany Boon has been fighting and denouncing the sexual violence she claims to have suffered. She filed several complaints against his ex-companion Benoît Jacquot26 years his senior, but also against Jacques Doillon. If both firmly contest all of the facts that Judith Godrèche attributes to them, she nevertheless remains dignified in her accusations, and reaffirmed them with strength and courage this Friday at the César Awards.
A courage that Anouchka Delon wanted to salute on her social networks. The one who is currently fighting against her two brothers Alain-Fabien and Anthony, but also against her mother Rosalie van Breemen, who chose to take the side of the boys, published a series of stories paying tribute to the actress. “Dear Judith Godrèche, you are all those women who we want to muzzle, and who despite everything, break and will break the deafening silence of French cinema” thus demonstrated to him the one that we recently saw at the cinema in The journey in pajamas by Pascal Thomas. In this feature film, Anouchka stars alongside Constance Labbé, Barbara Schulz, Pierre Arditi, Hippolyte Girardot and even Anny Duperey and Lolita Chammah.
“This time, it won’t be like the other times”
Judith Godrèche’s poignant speech quickly became viral on social networks, and is already establishing itself as one of the most memorable moments of all the César ceremonies. Many artists, such as Justine Triet, Léa Drucker and Pio Marmaï, have praised the courage of their colleague, who according to them, allows us to pave the way for a French #MeToo. In her speech, however, Judith Godrèche, very moved, attacked all those who have remained silent for several weeks, for fear of professional and economic reprisals: “For some time now, I have been talking, I have been talking, but I can’t hear you, or barely. Where are you ? What do you say ? A whisper. Half a word (…) I know it’s scary. Lose grants. Losing roles. To lose his job. Me too. I’m scared too. I left school at fifteen, I don’t have the baccalaureate, nothing. It would be complicated to be blacklisted from everything. That wouldn’t be funny.”
And to conclude, in front of a unanimously standing room: “You have to be wary of little girls. They touch the bottom of the pool, bump into each other, hurt themselves, but bounce back. Little girls are punks who come back disguised as hamsters. And, to dream of a possible revolution, they like to replay this dialogue from Céline and Julie going by boat: Once upon a time. Twice upon a time. It was three times. It was that this time it won’t happen like that, not like the other times.”