Adele Haenel during the #NousToutes feminist collective demonstration against sexist and sexual violence. (Paris, November 19, 2022) Abaka
in a column published in Sunday Newspaper (JDD)Writer Annie Erno, director Céline Ciamma and anti-racism activist Assa Traore have come out in support of actress Adele Hennel, who has recently been subjected to homophobic attacks.
On February 20, Adele Hennel drew the ire of the Internet. And this, to show her support “as a feminist” to the strikers who mobilized against the pension reform and condemned the presence of ministers accused of rape in the government during a public meeting at the University of Paris 8. Since then, the French. the actress is subjected to a “violent sexist campaign”, condemns about 200 activists published in the column Sunday Newspaper (JDD) this Friday, March 3rd.
” Curated by the fachosphere from CNews to Current valuesand her traditional allies, the offensive actions caused a flood of sexist expressions against the actress: insults, comments about her figure, attempts to discredit her,” list the signatories of the text, which include writer Annie Erno, director Celine Ciamma. or anti-racist activist Assa Traore. “Misogynistic strategies that are not new when a woman speaks out politically. Even today, the media is talking about Adele Hennel’s “singing coup” at the 45th Césars ceremony in 2020, although she condemned with her gesture the impunity of dominants and celebrities accused of sexist violence and sexuality. Let’s remind that on February 28, 2020, the heroine of the film Portrait of a girl burning on fire and director Celine Ciamma stormed out of the room when Roman Polanski, absent from the ceremony, won the best director award for his film. I blame.
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From actress to activist
Since then, Adele Hennel has stayed away from French cinema and is now more determined to engage in politics. Invited by the collective of Du Pain & Des Roses (a branch of the Révolution Permanente political organization) in Paris on Monday, February 20, the actress did not mince her words in front of about 350 people who came to participate in this meeting. amphitheater at Paris 8 University: “I played in a movie called Portrait of a girl burning on fireAnd today I want to say. You can cast misery on the capitalists and the bourgeois and depict the youth on fire,” he said. “The government will listen to us only if we force them. And for that we have to block the economy, force a general and restorative strike after March 7 and 8. A position that fired the powder.
On social media, many netizens expressed distaste for the actress heavily involved in the #MeToo movement, who is the first to denounce sexual violence at the center of French cinema. And very quickly, comments directed at the young woman’s figure flooded Twitter. As noted by the Chair JDD:“The violence against the actress reflects the fear in the world of power that an internationally recognized artist, having received several Césars, including Best Actress, could choose a different camp.” The signatories of the text add: “A concern that is doubled by the fact that it places the issue of the fight for women’s rights as an issue inseparable from the ongoing fight for pensions, while this may intensify from March 7.” Then conclude by calling for International Women’s Day on March 8. When the feminist struggle goes hand in hand with the struggle against pension reforms.
Source: Le Figaro
