In the M6 documentary “A silence so loud”, Emmanuelle Béart reveals that she was a victim of incest from the age of 11 to 15.
[Mis à jour le 5 septembre 2023 à 11h25] A strong testimony to break a taboo. In the documentary “Un silence si noisy”, broadcast on M6 on September 24, actress Emmanuelle Béart reveals that she was a victim of incest from the age of 11 to 15, tells us The Obs in preview. The actress does not give the name of her attacker, affirming however that it would not be her father or her mother.
“I’m 11 years old, it’s night, I’m sure of it, she reveals at the very beginning of the documentary in comments relayed by the Obs. You tear my sleep as you tear my nightgown noiselessly. night […] I’m very cold. No scream comes out of my mouth, words don’t form in my mouth, my mouth is sewn shut.”
The actress testifies to four other victims of incest, while revealing the trauma left by these attacks, 45 years later: “Today, the consequences remain planted there, in my DNA, she testifies in the first seconds of the documentary, always according to the media. My nights are sleepless one after the other. I scream in the silence like millions of others that no one hears”. Emmanuelle Béart co-directed the M6 documentary which is therefore to be discovered in a few weeks, alongside the Franco-Ukrainian director and journalist Anastasia Mikova.
Biography of Emmanuelle Béart –Emmanuelle Béart is a French actress known for having played in Manon des Sources, 8 women, Les Destinées sentimentales or Mission Impossible. She received the César for Best Supporting Actress for Manon des Sources, and was nominated seven times for the Césars, including five times for the Best Actress award.
Emmanuelle Béart was born on August 14, 1953, in Gassin, in the Var. Her father, Guy Béart, is a popular singer and her mother, Geneviève Galéa is a former model who had a short acting career. The little girl is 8 years old when she appears for the first time in a film: The Race of the hare through the fields by Rene Clement. As a teenager, she was a rebellious student determined to become an actress. She left for several years Montreal where she is spotted by Robert Altman for a film that is not made.
Returning to France, she moved to Paris and briefly attended a drama court. She toured in 1983 in First Desires, an erotic film by David Hamilton, then in L’Amour en Douard by Edouard Molinaro. This feature film launched his career and allowed him to meet Daniel Auteuil who will remain his companion for almost ten years. The young actress must however fight hard to appear in the distribution of Manon of the sources of Claude Berry thanks to which she won the César for Best Female Hope in 1987. Thanks to this role, she quickly became a real star.
But her career choices disconcert the public: she favors above all dramatic roles and auteur films. She thus interprets a delinquent in Children of Disorder, a prostitute in I don’t kiss of André Téchiné and a woman persecuted by her jealous husband in Hell by Claude Chabrol. His stark role in The beautiful noisemaker by Jacques Rivette reinforces her image of a liberated and sensual woman. She finds with Claude Sautet the opportunity to demonstrate her talent as an actress in a more subtle register and a palette of feelings all in halftone. A Heart in Winter (1991), then Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995) were public and critical successes.
Another form of recognition: it is chosen by Brian de Palma to be the partner of Tom Cruise In Impossible mission in 1996. She let herself be tempted by comedy with The log by Danielle Thompson and renewed the experience with Voyance et manigance in 2001 and To drink in 2003. However, she remains attached to psychological interpretations: she collaborates with Olivier Assayas (Les Destinées sentimentales), Jacques Rivette (The story of Marie and Julien), André Téchiné (The Lost), Anne Fontaine (Nathalie…) and Danis Tanovic (Hell). We find her again at the end of 2006 alongside Catherine Deneuve And Gerard Lanvinas a glamorous cabaret singer for the needs of The family hero. Two years later, it’s in the shoes of a dance teacher in comedy Disco then in the role of a mother in search of her missing child in the Thai tsunami in Vinyan that the actress is talking about. In 2010, she finds her companion at the time Michaël Cohen with whom she shares the poster of the sentimental drama It starts at the endbut also in Bye Bye Blondie by Virginie Despentes in 2012. This same year, she is in the credits of the film anarchic Gaucho TV. We also saw it in The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles in 2014, but the actress is becoming increasingly rare in the cinema: it is above all in the theater that she now makes appearances.
Emmanuelle Béart was in a relationship with Daniel Auteuil in 1984. After more than ten years of cohabitation, the couple separated. The actress will maintain a relationship with the producer Vincent Meyer, met on the set of La Répétition. But in 2003, Vincent Meyer committed suicide in Paris, while Emmanuelle Béart was at the Cannes Film Festival. A few years later, she married actor Michaël Cohen in 2008. After three years of marriage, they divorced in 2011. Since then, Emmanuelle Béart has been in a relationship with director Frédéric Chaudier, whom she married in 2018.
Emmanuelle Beart and Daniel Auteuil
Emmanuelle Béart and Daniel Auteuil were one of the outstanding couples of French cinema during the 1980s and 1990s. The couple met on the set of the film L’Amour en douce and will share the poster in Manon des Sources. Very discreet in front of photographers, they had a cohabitation relationship for eleven years, before separating in 1995. Together, Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Béart had a daughter, Nelly, born in 1992. “I lived for eleven years with a man and I never got tired of it”, explained the actress in an interview with Elle in 2008.
Emmanuelle Béart is the mother of three children: her eldest daughter, Nelly, was born in 1992 from her relationship with Daniel Auteuil. She will then have a son, Yohann, born of her relationship with composer David Moreau, and a son, Surafel, adopted with her ex-husband Michael Cohen.