Metoo: Jacques Audiard, Edwy Plenel, Reda Kateb… who are the 100 signatories of the platform against “hegemonic masculinity”

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Une centaine de Français du monde de la culture apportent leur soutien au mouvement #Metoo dans une tribune publiée dans le magazine Elle le mardi 30 avril 2024.

"It is revolting that theater and cinema serve as a cover for abuses that have nothing to do with art&quot ; : around a hundred French people from the world of culture, including director Jacques Audiard, support the #Metoo movement.

The column, published Tuesday on the website d’Elle, was initiated by the mathematician Michel Broué, companion of ;Anouk Grinberg, according to the magazine.

100 signatories

"Over the past few years that the #MeToo revolution has been spreading, we have understood how much masculine behavior sometimes considered innocuous is experienced by women for what it is  : abuse", they write in the text.

This one is signed in particular by the actors Reda Kateb, Swann Arlaud, Mathieu Amalric, the directors Jacques Audiard (including the film "Emilia Perez" will be in competition at Cannes) and Emmanuel Mouret, the directors Alain Françon, Thomas Jolly (also artistic director of the ceremonies for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris), the historian Benjamin Stora, the journalist Edwy Plenel…

Against a "hegemonic masculinity"

"Contrary to what we sometimes read, we do not think that we are going after men", they express. "The practice of equality is desirable, it takes away neither freedom nor pleasure but increases them; it embellishes relationships", they write again.

"We refuse to recognize ourselves in this hegemonic masculinity. For example, having to reserve gentleness and care for the feminine gender is absurd: a man cries, a man loves, a man can be upset."< /p>

For the signatories, "it is revolting that theater and cinema serve as a cover for abuses which have nothing to do with ;art". Likewise, "it is revolting to use one's prestige, whatever it may be, to abuse the ;rsquo;admiration that he arouses".

At stake according to them: "Spare more than half of humanity from serious attacks."

The French cinema sector has been shaken for several months by accusations of sexual violence which allegedly took place for years.

Actress Judith Godrèche became a spearhead of this movement, after filing a complaint in early February against directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon, for sexual and physical violence which dates back to her adolescence , which the latter deny.