‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ Star Quits Cinema Over French MeToo Inertia
, has announced her retirement from the movie business, saying the complacency and indifference of the French industry to theon Tuesday, Haenel she wanted to use the public declaration of her retirement from the film business as a way to call out the “general complacency” within the French industry “vis-à-vis sexual aggressors.”
Despite several high-profile examples of sexual abuse and misconduct within the French film industry, many of which came to light in the wake of the #MeToo movement, Haenel says the powers that be have chosen to ignore and ostracize women who have come forward to sound the alarm. “They join hands [to protect] the [Gerard] Depardieus, the [Roman] Polanskis, the [Dominique] Boutonnats,” she writes in herletter, referencing three of the most prominent French film figures accused of abuse.
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