I canât believe that in 2020 there are people who still think that it is âfashionableâ to stand up to abuse or that there is something to gain from it but here we are, as if the world wasnât rotten enough already.
That said. You talk about having nothing to risk without knowing the fact because AdĂšle had everything to risk and indeed, there were consequences for what she did. The CĂ©sars are one of them. AdĂšle spoke out against Polanski and his defenders back in November, in a much more direct and unforgiving manner than 99% of the Hollywood stars that are championed as fighters for justice because they wear black or write a cool tweet.
She did this and she was punished for it. In France, the MeToo movement wasnât met with support, especially in the cinema world, it pretty much passed by unnoticed. AdĂšle is the first public figure in France who spoke out and exposed the system of silence in place to support that abuse, and since she didnât just share her story but she questioned the whole system and its enablers she became a target. Sure empty words of praise were spoken about her to speak out about her experience, but when it came to practical action, the support went all to Polanski and the CĂ©sar awards were literally set up by the media as a match between him and her, purposefully making him look like the delicate victim and AdĂšle the angry feminist lesbian
Want to talk about practical backlash? Portrait of a Lady on Fire lost every award except Cinematography, including Screenplay, Directing, and Best Actress, even though it literally won Best Screenplay at Cannes and CĂ©line Sciamma and AdĂšle and NoĂ©mie had been considered the favorites for those awards. They didnât award best original screenplay to a film which won best screenplay at arguably the biggest cinema festival in the world and gave instead best adapted screenplay and directing to Polanski, for a movie thatâs supposed to evoke his âvictimizationâ by society and media. AdĂšle was threatened with a dead career for walking out. It wasnât âfashionableâ for her to walk out because France is not like America and most of the support in the media/celebrity world went to Polanski, not her. There were people yelling âBravo Roman!â in the room, in the row right behind her, which is what made her leave. She went to the awards to support the movie she made and the ideals that movie shares, consent and equality and collaboration, and found herself in a situation where with every award given to Polanski, with every joke about him, the camera cut back to her, just waiting for her reaction. Until she couldnât take it anymore.
Why couldnât she take it anymore apart from having basic morals and integrity? AdĂšle is a survivor of child sexual abuse. She was harassed and molested by the director of her first film from when she was 12 till she was 15 years old, it left her traumatized, suicidal and made her cut off all contacts with the cinema world even though it was something she loved. She spoke out about her abuse because she found out that same director would work with teenagers again for a new movie and she couldnât let it happen. Her own father didnât want her to speak out because he thought she was doing it for attention. She didnât walk out of the Cesars because it was easy or convenient or whatever. She did because sheâs a victim of pedophilia and she was asked to celebrate and applaud the triumph of a serial child rapist. It has nothing to do with it being âfashionableâ.Â
But if you look at that video and heard the anger in her voice and still think she did this as a media stunt I really donât know what to tell you other than you can keep your very skewed, horrible opinions off this post.
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