Five years after Gueule d’ange, director Vanessa Philo is back behind the camera with an ambitious project, an adaptation of the book Consent written by Vanessa Springora. This autobiographical story about the influences and sexual abuse she suffered as a minor caused a stir when it was published.
Consent quickly became one of the best-selling books when it was released in January 2020; It has been the subject of many translations around the world. In the film, Kim Higgelin, who appeared in the Plan B series to be broadcast by TF1 in May 2021, plays a young Vanessa Springora. As for Gabriel Matznef, the novelist accused of sexual violence, he will be portrayed by Jean-Paul Rouve.
The cast also includes Elodie Busches (adult Vanessa Springora), Leticia Casta and Lucy DeBay. The story takes us to Paris in 1985. Vanessa was thirteen years old when she met Gabriel Matznef, a famous fifty-year-old writer.
A young teenager becomes the lover and muse of this person known by the cultural and political world. Losing himself in the relationship, he experiences more and more violently the destructive power that this predator exerts on him.
“Vanessa Springora explains how she became the victim of a triple predator: sexual, literary and psychic. But beyond her individual story, she also questions the excesses of the era and the complacency of an environment blinded by talent and fame.”producers announced when the project was announced in July 2020.
The Consent hits theaters on October 11, 2023.
Source: Allocine
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