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‘Wild Diamond’ Director Agathe Riedinger on Her Cannes Competition Debut Tackling the Hyper-Sexualization of Women in Reality TV
In the film, promising French director Agathe Riedinger dares to tackle timely themes such as the hyper-sexualization of women and rape culture.
Through celebrity status, they can achieve a sense of self-worth that is being denied to them, because they are automatically pigeonholed as belonging to the working class, and therefore cannot have access to a stage, lights and success. Beyond her wish to remain a virgin, Liane has shut herself behind her image, behind her body, to the point where her appearance has become an armor, for her to face the world and which allows her to stay in control and feel powerful. It made it possible for people to start thinking: “OK, it might be stupid and nasty, but perhaps we should talk about it.” Ultimately, it’s a mirror of society which isn’t so nice to see and takes up a lot of space, but which needs to be discussed.
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