“I delete you from my world.” Adele Haenel’s radical farewell letter to the cinema

“We rise and break.” After his sensational exit from the Cesar 2020 room against Roman Polanski’s directing award ( I blame), accusing 11 women of sexual violence, the actress announces that she is completely leaving the world of cinema. “I’m kicking you out of my world. I am going on strike,” he said in an open letter Telerama: .

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“The film industry is totally reactionary, racist and patriarchal”

The magazine inquired: “where did the absent actress Adele Hanel go?” and if “this disappearance was chosen or suffered, after his coup d’état of Cesar 2020, which divided the world of cinema and beyond”. Indeed, the actress was discovered in 2002 devils disappeared from the screens after the ceremony. Role: heroes never dieIn 2020, then nothing. In a German magazine FAQs , he announced in May 2022 that he would “work only for the theater. (…) Because the film industry is absolutely reactionary, racist and patriarchal.” Reaffirms this position a year later by responding Telerama: in a letter that the media chose to publish in full this Tuesday, May 9. “I decided to politicize my stand in cinema to denounce the profession’s general complacency towards sex offenders and, more generally, the way in which this medium cooperates with the deadly racist eco-killing order of the world as it is. “, he wrote.

“It is urgent to sound this alarm as loud as possible”

Resolutely militant and radical, the now-former film actress has repeatedly lent her voice to recent mobilizations against pension reform. In his letter he elaborates. “There is an emergency situation. under capitalism there is no future for anyone to live in the short term. It is urgent to sound this alarm as loud as possible.” He rebels against the film world, which is obsessed with “staying light”, “especially not talking about ‘nothing'”.

And the one who accused Christophe Rugia, the director, in his testimony to Mediapart Devils, touching and sexually assaulting her when she was 12, puts the woman’s struggle at the heart of her letter. Referring to the “bourgeois order”, he notes: “They are worried that the victims are making a lot of noise, they prefer that we continue to disappear and die in silence.” “I say again. shame,” he says, referring to the word he chanted as he left the Caesars and capitalized here.

Faced with this system, which he rejects, he declares: “I have no weapons other than my body and my integrity. Canceled culture in the first sense: you have money, you have power and all the glory, you shower, but you will not have me as an audience. I’m erasing you from my world.”