Director and actor Nicolas Bedos has just been sentenced to one year in prison, six of which were suspended, for sexual assault against two women. He appealed his conviction, while the lawyer for one of the complainants declared that “this decision, in principle, advances the fight against sexist and sexual violence”. At the same time, the defamation trial of director Roman Polanski opened this Wednesday, October 23, while that of actor Gérard Depardieu opens this Monday, October 28. At the same time, the National Assembly has just relaunched at the beginning of the month its commissions of inquiry into violence in cinema and child protection following the accusations made by actress Judith Godrèche against the directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon. A co-presence of events which can be perceived as a change in mentalities, at least in their media coverage as explained by academic Bérénice Hamidi:
“The change is not in terms of judicial treatment, but rather in terms of the media treatment of these cases. The sequence that interests me is the conviction of Bedos, the new trial of Depardieu and other trials which involve famous men, knowing that at the same time, there is this Mazan trial which runs from September until December And what we are forced to see with this co-presence of all these cases is that. they involve the whole of society: extraordinary men, but also ordinary men. In the last three or four years, there has been a very strong evolution in media treatment if we compare with what happened at the time. Caesars in 2021 and both the accusations against Polanski and at the same time his celebration We see that there is a shift both in the cinema sector and in the media coverage of these cases and. It’s really the highlight, a real source of optimism.”
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- The Bastille and Garnier opera houses in Paris will alternately close for work from 2027, reveals a report from the Court of Auditors which has just been published and which estimates the cost of these projects at 200 million euros. Wear and tear of the premises, the need for modernization, and in the case of the Opéra Bastille, a difficulty in upgrading to current energy standards requires urgent work. The budget balance is satisfactory and will allow the Opera to finance part of the work.
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