The spearhead actress of the #MeToo movement in France sticks to her principles. In 2019, she spoke out to break the omerta around violence against women in the French cinema industry and revealed, with the support of a long and solid investigation by Mediapart, to have been the victim of harassment and sexual touching. from director Christophe Ruggia. The actress then chose to step back until the 2020 Césars ceremony, where she left the room in protest when Roman Polanski, accused of rape and sexual assault for many years, had been crowned best director for J’accuse. Since then, Adèle Haenel no longer has a film project, apart from a few appearances in documentaries, and has chosen to move towards the boards. She is currently showing L’Étang, a play by Gisèle Vienne, for an intense and radical experience as a duo. Alongside Ruth Vega Fernandez, Céline Sciamma’s muse tells the story of a boy who feels unloved by his mother and who will fake suicide to confirm maternal love. Passing through Italy for the needs of the promotion, Adèle Haenel spoke with the magazine il manifesto who asked her about her future career choices. Exasperated by the sexism that plagues the film industry, the actress announces that she is done with the cinema, before qualifying her thinking. She explains that she decided to devote herself to the theater, to the films of young filmmakers and to the cinema of her friend Céline Sciamma, who revealed her in 2007 in The Birth of the Octopuses. More than a career choice, a life choice: “I will no longer work with established directors but only with new artists who are starting out. The only one I could work with is Céline Sciamma because our relationship goes beyond work. , but it will have to be in another economic system. of a more feminine and singular vision: “It is not a question of choosing according to the subject, the theme. It is a question of redefining reality, of questioning our perception as Gisèle does [Vienne]. Form and meaning coincide […] There are many artists who want to make films in another way, in another economy, with another type of representation, with other bodies. I could be part of this cinema, if that happens.” If no filming is currently on the agenda for the actress, all is not over between Adèle Haenel and the 7th art.Adèle Haenel stops cinema…for now
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