A number of of the filmmaker’s collaborators, together with editor Sophie Vercruyssen, who acquired the Magritte for greatest modifying for “To lose cause” and “The syndrome of previous loves”, and even actress Virginie Efira denounce his working strategies.
Throughout the thirteenth Magritte ceremony on March 9, 2024 on the nationwide theater of Wallonia-Brussels, editor Sophie Vercruyssen, who acquired the prize for “The syndrome of previous loves”, took the chance to pronounce the next phrases: “A world the place cultural exception has too usually led to distinctive blindness in the direction of the steadiness of energy, affect and mistreatment. A world the place predators can injury women and men with full impunity. This technique should finish.” Her speech on the time remained very imprecise on the particular person(s) focused, till she just lately broke her silence within the French day by day Libération.
The 46-year-old editor lastly affirms that it was the director Joachim Lafosse that she was concentrating on. In twenty years, she has collaborated with the Belgian filmmaker on 6 events between 2004 and 2015. And if she decides to talk out immediately, it’s as a result of she shouldn’t be alone. In reality, round ten girls, screenwriters, actresses and technicians denounce the working circumstances on the units of his movies. They describe, in keeping with Libération, information which may quantity to ethical and sexual harassment.
Joachim Lafosse denies the information
The Brussels director despatched an e-mail to the editorial workers of Libération, responding to all of the factors raised within the survey. He signifies that he doesn’t “by no means sought to offend or deliberately humiliate anybody.” Valérie Houdart, assistant director, talks about her aspect of the information “which could be in comparison with sexual assault, the day earlier than the primary day of filming for Nue Propriety for which she thought-about submitting a criticism”, writes the day by day. “By no means in my life have I pushed anybody right into a nook between two doorways and kissed them by pressure,” denies Joachim Lafosse.
Among the many girls who accuse him in Libération, we discover the well-known Belgian actress Virgnie Efira, who labored with Joachim Lafosse on the movie “Continuer”, launched in 2019. She describes this filming as one of many worst of her life and describes a crew that could not take it anymore.
No complaints have been filed at this stage.
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