Emmanuel Beart confesses his incest. “It was really dark, so I can’t picture his body, but I can feel it.”

“Words give, they are first aid,” explains Emmanuel Beart in the magazine’s columns. He, will be released on September 14. The 60-year-old actress gives an exciting interview for the documentary So loud silence, filmed with Anastasia Mikova and aired on September 24 on M6. In this performance, the actress goes to meet four victims of bloodshed, “survivors”, who were ready to testify in front of her camera. It was through their contact that he says he felt the need to share his story. “Encountering their bravery, I questioned myself,” she says after forty-five years of silence.

Emmanuel Beart, who was sexually abused between the ages of 10 and 14, however, assures that he is “not a victim, and this is not a film about victims, but about victims and fighting beings.” As the magazine reminds He10% of the population was exposed to incest during childhood: one in five women and one in twelve boys. “These numbers, which I don’t like to repeat, make me angry,” continues the actress. What is this dumb society that doesn’t see that 10% of the population is sexually abused, 80% of which occurs within the family? What kind of society is this that does not listen to its children?”

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“It was really dark”

For his part, Emmanuel Beart still has “tangible memories” of his attacks, which happened in the middle of the night. “The dark is scary because you can’t see what’s going on. For example, I don’t have someone else’s face. It was really dark, so I can’t see his body, but I can feel it,” she breathes. And continue. “We are no longer fully ourselves when that happens. I remember a lamp very well, I have the impression that I was escaping into this lamp, that I was traveling, separated from the body, which means that for a very long time and contrary to what others may think of me, I was not in me, this body no longer belonged to me. I showed it, exposed it, but I wasn’t there.” When asked about his silence for so many years, he answered: “It’s because we’re afraid, because we’re ashamed. Depending on the situation and the person attacking you, we say to ourselves: “And if I was the cause of it, what am I becoming, me, my breasts…”

After four years of sexual abuse, at the age of 14, she decided to speak out about it. “Why 14 years old? he always asks himself for the magazine He, I have no answers, I broke down, I couldn’t take it anymore (…) It’s hard to understand, it’s first of all a very complicated dialogue with yourself. But it’s not because I was silent that I didn’t understand.” At first he confides in his grandmother, who has “saved his skin so many times”, before promptly sending him to boarding school to “get himself out of this man’s clutches”. Then comes the confession to the parents who “didn’t see anything”. “I don’t blame them,” he defends in retrospect, “they have nothing to do with it. It is not only a family problem, but a social and political one. That the mother, the father does not see, but that a whole society continues to act as if it does not exist…

Language major

In addition to the help of his grandmother, the “skin saver” of Emmanuel Beart was probably the cinema as well. “It’s quite a language major for someone who has kept his mouth shut for so long,” he admits. Then, for years, and this is where I have to continue to love it, this job, it allowed me to scream. Because he assures us that the criminal law today is not yet suitable for sexual violence. “Family silence, public silence, circles of silence. And by keeping silent ourselves, we perpetuate this silence, we participate in the silence,” he testifies. Faced with this observation that “justice is not measured”, he decides:

Since his revelation, Emmanuel Burt, who has never filed a complaint, has also refused to reveal the identity of his assailant. Dismissal of charges is terrifying, and that’s what happens to three-quarters of people who file a complaint. Today, my notoriety allows me to take the camera, find money to make this film (..) Now what would be the point of saying who it is in the media? It should be noted that his father, Guy Beart, who died in 2015, was cleared of all suspicions.

When asked if Emmanuel Beart has come to terms with this past, the actress simply answers: “I wasn’t happy in my 20s. On the 30th, a little more. At 40, a little more. And today I have the ability to be happy. I don’t care what my face is now, I can finally be here.”

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