Strong moment of César: the departure of Adèle Haenel

Strong moment of Cesar the departure of Adele Haenel

© Christophe ENA/AP/SIPA (published on 02/20/2023)

“Shame!” Difficult to forget the outraged exclamation that Adèle Haenel pushed as she leaves the César room on February 28, 2020. The cause? Roman Polanski, still accused of sexual violence by several women and sentenced in the 1970s for the Samantha Geimer affair, received the César for the best production for the film I accuse. Furious, Adèle Haenel leaves the room, throwing “long live pedophilia, bravo pedophilia”. A few weeks earlier, Adèle Haenel had confided that she herself had harassment and sexual assault during her adolescence on the part of the filmmaker Christophe Ruggia. Subsequently, the actress had explained in the columns of the New York Times that “distinguishing Polanski is spitting in the face of all the victims. That means,” it is not so serious to rape women. “

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