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French actress Adèle Haenel joins the Global Sumud flotilla to Gaza from Tunis

The celebrated French actress, who announced two years ago that she was stepping away from the world of film for “political reasons”, has said she will set sail for the Gaza Strip from Tunis aboard the Global Sumud flotilla - the biggest attempt yet to break the Israeli blockade of…

Euronews

Gerard Depardieu trial sees France grapple with response to sexual violence

The case, beginning Monday, is the most prominent in the post-#MeToo era in France

The Independent UK

#MeToo is still alive in Europe

In France and Spain, major #MeToo cases are coming to a close and beginning.

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French film director Ruggia convicted of sexually abusing actress Adèle Haenel

A French court has convicted French film director Christophe Ruggia of sexually abusing actress Adèle Haenel when she was underage. He will avoid prison as the court sentenced him to a two-year suspended term and two years under house arrest.Ruggia was also ordered to pay €15,000 to Haenel.

Radio France Internationale

French Filmmaker Found Guilty Of Sexual Assault In #Metoo Trial

French court finds filmmaker guilty of sexual assault on actor, sparking industry-wide conversation on abuse. Prominent figures speak out against abuse in ...

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Film director found guilty of sexual assault in France’s first big #MeToo trial

A Paris court has found a filmmaker guilty of sexual assault on French actor Adèle Haenel when she was between 12 and 15 in the early 2000s, in the country’s first big #MeToo trial

The Independent UK

French cinema tried to hide its violence against women. At Cannes, we’re calling it out

I took to the red carpet alongside other activists to highlight sexual violence. Now women of colour need a bigger place in the movement, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

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Isabelle Huppert: ‘When you’re an actor, you keep secrets’

The fearless French actor is known for playing powerful, complex women, mostly recently in Jean-Paul Salomé’s corporate drama La Syndicaliste. But she has her own way of balancing loyalty to film with her feminist principles

The Guardian - UK

Paedophiles, abusers… and selfish mothers? Why cancelling artists is only half the problem

A new book explores why we still consume art created by ‘monsters’. It’s the wrong question, says Eloise Hendy

The Independent UK

Paedophiles, abusers… and selfish mothers? Why cancelling artists is only half the problem

A new book explores why we still consume art created by ‘monsters’. It’s the wrong question, says Eloise Hendy

The Independent UK

Jane Fonda: French director asked to sleep with me to ‘see what my orgasms were like’ for a role

Actor says director René Clément propositioned her in French during the filming of 1964 film Joy House, but ‘I pretended I didn’t understand’

The Guardian - AU

Jeanne du Barry: Johnny Depp, its controversial director, and everything else we know about the Cannes film

Cannes’ opening film has set the festival alight

Evening Standard

Cannes director defends festival after Adèle Haenel slams French film industry's #MeToo response

After one of France’s top actors, Adèle Haenel, announced she was quitting a French film industry that she denounced for “complacency toward sexual aggressors,” Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Fremaux rejected her criticisms Monday

The Independent UK

Cannes Film Festival boss rejects claims that it’s a ‘festival for rapists’

Actor Adèle Haenel recently slammed the French film industry for its ‘defence’ of rapists

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Adèle Haenel retires over French film sector’s ‘complacency’ towards sexual predators

Actor says ‘cancelling’ film from her life is way to protest against sector’s ostracism of women who speak up

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