All our programs "À l'air libre": https://www.mediapart.fr/studio/video... This is one of the most significant hearings of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into violence in the world of cinema. On November 7, actress Sara Forestier testified about violence suffered during her career, and described "the machine for crushing talents", in the words of the rapporteur (MoDem) Erwan Balanant. Guest on our program "À l'air libre", the 38-year-old actress, revealed in L'Esquive (2003), by Abdellatif Kechiche, relates the difficulty of the film industry to take charge of the issue of violence, the "focus" on women who denounce violence, and the bad "reputations" that they are supposedly given in return: "They may be looking for Mother Teresa, but there is no perfect victim. » She also returns to the impact of the words of the actress Adèle Haenel in 2019 – a case whose trial will be held on December 9 and 10 at the Paris Criminal Court. Sara Forestier reveals that she herself testified in support of a complainant in the proceedings against Jacques Doillon, accused of sexual violence by several women (the director disputes the facts and has filed a defamation complaint against the actress Judith Godrèche): "I filmed with Jacques Doillon [in the film Mes séances de lutte (2013) – editor's note], a complainant filed a complaint against him, I testified in this context to say things that I had seen and that Jacques Doillon had done on this shoot, on this girl. » On our set, the actress also returns to her testimony regarding the actor Nicolas Duvauchelle, whom she accuses of having slapped her on the set of the film Bonhomme in 2017. According to our information, she filed a complaint in March 2023 and a preliminary investigation is underway at the Paris prosecutor's office. She announces that she also intends to file a defamation complaint against the actor, who called her, on November 8, on the social network X, a "mythomaniac", and who assured - contrary to his statements in the court file - that it was she who had "slapped" him. Asked by Mediapart for a video interview, Nicolas Duvauchelle, who is presumed innocent, responded that he did not wish to "express himself further at this stage". He told us that he had "never hit Sara Forestier" and that the actress's comments about him were "absolutely false". For his part, the film's producer, Denis Pineau-Valencienne, informed us that there had been "no slaps or physical violence" according to the five written testimonies he had collected at the time from "team members present on site". The director, Marion Vernoux, also responded that, to her knowledge, no slaps had been given by either of them. "What could have happened for them to resort to such verbal extremes? I approach them to try to calm them down. They continue to spit obscenities in each other's faces. No doubt a few hateful spits land on each other's faces. In terms of physical violence, that's all I can testify to," she wrote in the testimony she sent to Mediapart. The filmmaker explains that, at the time of the events, she refused to support Sara Forestier's police report because she did not want to "give false testimony", even to save her film, she says. After recording this program on Tuesday, November 26, Sara Forestier wanted to respond to Marion Vernoux's response: "I made this program because in cinema and society, we must break the chains of complicity. Complicit silences do not exist, they are complicit "shut up", complicit guilt-trips, minimizations of the aggressors' acts. Complicity must stop, so that the aggressors find themselves weakened, helpless, and less strong in their domination. I believe in it." A program prepared and presented by Mathieu Magnaudeix and Marine Turchi, a journalist in the investigations department of Mediapart. Mediapart has only one financial resource: the money from its subscriptions. No billionaire shareholders, no ads, no state subsidies, no money paid by Google, Amazon, Facebook… ➡️ To help us enrich our video production, support us by subscribing from 1 euro: https://abo.mediapart.fr/abonnement/d... ➡️ If you are already a subscriber or would like to support us in another way, you have another way to act, the donation: https://donorbox.org/mediapart?defaul... ➡️ Subscribe to our newsletters! https://info.mediapart.fr/renderers/p...