MeToo Cinema: Isilde Le Besco sues Benoit Jacquot for ‘stopping this system of domination’

Last February, actress Isilde Le Besco joined Judith Godrech’s voice and accused Benoit Jacco of “physical and psychological abuse”.

Isilde Le Besco met Benoit Jacot when she was only 16; The director directed him alongside Daniel Ott in Sade. “A few months after the filming of this film, the actress, then 16 years old, began a relationship with Benoit Jacques, then 52 years old,” he later said. Parisian.

The actress, director and screenwriter today decided to file a lawsuit against the director in support of “women who expose themselves in public”.

in the columns of releaseIsilde Le Besco admits that she hesitated for a long time before finally filing a complaint against the film director Benoit Jacco for the rape of a minor over the age of 15, this Wednesday, May 29.

Isilde Le Besco explains:With this complaint, I am not so much attacking Benoit Jaco, but the women who do this and thus expose themselves in public. I feel morally obligated to do it, even if I didn’t do it alone. I use my simple little case to show that Benoit Jacco behaved with me as he did with other young girls. That I’m part of the system.”

I am complaining because I want this system of domination to end.

Then he adds: “If I’m complaining, it’s because I want this system of dominance, which is constantly being renewed, to stop. If I was a teenager in this grid, it’s because I was isolated and poor, with no adults around. If I protect myself, my parents will not play this role.”

complaintIsild Le Besco This is in addition to what was already filed last February Judith Godrechthus motivating the initiation of a preliminary investigation “in relation to the crime of rape of a minor under 15 years of age by a person in authority”, as specified. release.