“Shame !” It’s hard to forget the outraged exclamation that Adèle Haenel uttered as she left the César room on February 28, 2020. The cause? Roman Polanski, still accused of sexual violence by several women and convicted in the 1970s for the Samantha Geimer affair, received the César for best director for the film J’accuse. Furious, Adèle Haenel leaves the room, launching “Long live pedophilia, bravo pedophilia”. A few weeks earlier, Adèle Haenel had confided that she herself had been the victim of harassment and sexual assault during her adolescence from the filmmaker Christophe Ruggia. Subsequently, the actress explained in the columns of the New York Times that “to distinguish Polanski is to spit in the face of all the victims. It means, “it is not so serious to rape women.”
Highlight of the Caesars: the departure of Adèle Haenel
