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Judith Godrèche Breaks Open France’s Moi Aussi Movement at Cannes
“They wish I would fall, I’d make a mistake. Once you are someone who is a whistleblower about sexual violence, you need to be perfect.”
Much of that can be credited to Judith Godrèche, an esteemed French actor whose short film Moi Aussi was shot in secret in March and added last-minute to the Un Certain Regard section of the festival. The poignant, poetic short features the faces and anonymous personal testimonies of people in the industry who have been victims of sexual abuse, gathered together in silence on a Parisian street as Godrèche’s daughter, actress Tess Barthélemy, dances lyrically around them. Moi Aussi is also personally symbolic for Godrèche, who, in 2017, joined the chorus of voices testifying against Harvey Weinstein, and more recently spoke out against two men in the French film industry: she filed a complaint against director Jacques Doillon, accusing him of “rape with violence,” on and off the set of the 1989 film The 15 Year Old Girl, and denounced as abuse the six-year relationship she, then age 14, had with the then-39-year-old director Benoît Jacquot back in the 1980s, whom she accused of “rape with constraint.” Both men deny the allegations, though the lawsuits are still active.
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