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French prosecutors have requested that film director Benoît Jacquot be charged with raping actresses Isild Le Besco and Julia Roy. Jacquot, 77, was questioned by police on Monday after several women accused him of a range of offences including rape, sexual assault and violence. In March, Julia Roy accused him of sexual violence committed over multiple years, while in May actress Isild Le Besco also alleged Jacquot raped her several times between 1998 and 2007. Jacquot has denied all accusations and any wrongdoing. #MeToo: French directors Benoît Jacquot & Jacques Doillon detained A third accus...
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An anonymous survey conducted by the MeTooEP campaign group in 2023 found that almost half of respondents - more than 550 parliament staff - said they had been subjected to psychological harassment at work - and around one in six people (15.5%) claimed to have been sexually harassed. The figures sit at odds with official findings at the institution, where only three MEPs in a chamber of 705 deputies were found guilty of harassing staff in the past five years: Luxembourg liberal Monica Semedo (sanctioned for a second time in 2023); Spanish socialist Mónica Silvana, and Spanish liberal José Ramó...
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French filmmakers Benoit Jacquot and Jacques Doillon have reportedly been taken into custody by Paris police investigating several claims of sexual violence against minors. An accusation against was first made public in February by the French actress Judith Godrèche, 51, who alleges she was raped by Jacquot when she was 14 and he was 39. Jacquot, one of France's most prominent directors, whose 2013 film Les Adieux à la reine (Farewell, My Queen) won three César awards (the French equivalent of an Oscar), has previously denied the accusations, describing their relationship at the time as "lovin...
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Supporters say a Chinese journalist Huang Xueqin who promoted women’s rights as part of the country’s nascent #MeToo movement has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of incitement to subvert state authority. Huang's sentencing comes almost three years after she and an activist Wang Jianbing were detained. Jianbing, a co-defendant known more for his labour rights activity also helped women report sexual harassment and was sentenced to three years and six months on the same charge. Huang Xueqin would also face a fine of 100,000 yuan (€13,000), underscoring the ruling Communist Part...
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French actor Edouard Baer has been accused by six women of sexual violence, in a joint investigation by Médiapart and Cheek. The report, published today (Thursday 23 May), states that the events took place between 2013 and 2021, largely in professional contexts. The women who testified, half of whom are of African descent, were in their twenties at the time of the events. According to the investigation, most of these women crossed paths with the 57-year-old actor on sets or show recordings. One young woman said she had to fight off the comedian, who tried to kiss her “on the neck and mouth” in...
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The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival kicks off tonight (Tuesday 14 May) with the opening film by Quentin Dupieux, Le Deuxième Acte. Beforehand, this year's jury, led by Little Women and Barbie director Greta Gerwig, participated in the yearly jury press conference. Joining Gerwig on the jury are US actress Lily Gladstone, who became the first Native American to be Oscar nominated for Best Actress for her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon; Japanese director and Palme d’Or winner Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose film Monster was screened in Competition last year in Cannes and won Best Sc...
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In his annual pre-festival opening press conference, Cannes General Delegate Thierry Frémaux announced that he would like to “have a festival free of polemics.” Hot-button topics like #MeToo, with the looming report of abuse in French cinema, the threat of employment strikes disrupting this year’s edition of the festival, as well as the war in Gaza, were largely avoided by Frémaux. When asked if the festival had, as widely reported, hired a crisis management team to deal with the possible earthquake of #MeToo allegations against French talent taking part in this year’s festival, Frémaux said h...
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The Cannes Film Festival starts next week, on Tuesday (14 May), with the opening film Le Deuxième Acte from French absurdist Quentin Dupieux. However, it’s already off to a rocky start, with a French labour group representing freelance workers at film festivals calling for a strike. As if that wasn’t enough of a headache for the Croisette, speculation is mounting in the French media over rumours that a bombshell #MeToo exposé will drop on the day of the opening. Indeed, there are rumours of a mysterious list of 10 actors / directors / producers who are set to be accused of #MeToo allegations d...
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In a significant development, New York's highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction. The decision, decided by a 4-3 vote, was anchored on the premise that the presiding judge in the watershed #MeToo trial had unfairly prejudiced the disgraced former movie mogul with what the court described as “egregious” improper rulings. Among these, the court highlighted a crucial decision allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case. “We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against person...
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Following the flurry of accusations against Gérard Depardieu and the watershed #MeToo moment France is finally facing in its insular entertainment industry, there seems to be further forward progress. The French comedy industry has adopted an essential "charter of good conduct", in order to combat the growing cases of sexual and sexist harassment and violence that have been reported in the industry. Spearheaded by Jessie Varin, artistic director of Parisian barge theatre Nouvelle Seine, the #MeTooStandUp initiative aims to prevent all "forms of sexist and sexual violence and harassment before,...
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