Dear Dr. Braghieri, I am writing to her for her article on Depardieu sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for having groped a 54 -year -old costume designer and a 34 -year -old assistant during the filming of a film. It came to my mind when Harvey Weinstein and Catherine Deneuve was condemned to an open letter on “Le Monde” criticized that explosion of a “new Puritanism” following the wave of the #metoo. “Rape is a crime – said the Deneuve – but trying to seduce someone, even in an insistent or clumsy way, is not a crime, nor gallantry is an aggression of the male”. Also in his column there was talk of the fear that was insinuating themselves in men and is inhibiting their gestures in fear of being interpreted as a harassment “in the nuce”. “We defend the freedom to annoy ourselves,” the appeal of the Deneuve ended. And in favor of Depardieu two other great French actresses such as Fanny Ardant and the splendid Brigitte Bardot sided. BB interrupting his ten -year press silence said: «Feminism is not for me. I love men and those who have talent and put her hand on a girl’s butt is thrown to the bottom of a cell ». Fanny Ardant also testified during the process in favor of Depardieu. And he added a staff to the actresses who, taking the opportunity of the #metoo, seek that “quarter of an hour of celebrity” of Warholiana memory. And I’m talking to her as a woman! Here in Italy – for another reason – the actors are coalizing themselves with a manifesto that exists from acting. Not being able to emerge for artistic reasons on the set!
Alice
Dear Alice, great is the confusion under the sky, but the situation is not excellent. The sacrosanct revolution, in this case, was the method but I often wonder what evolution has taken. A pig is a pig and a mythomaniac is a mythomaniac, we agree but how it really establishes who is who is actually, for me, a dense mystery. Obviously I don’t speak of the more violent and irrefutable situations (the rape properly said), I refer rather to all the other nuances of harassment (equally hateful) that require reconstructions and interpretations and contextualizations.
Those in front of which it is inevitable to get an idea by taking in consideration aspects that have nothing to do with the story itself. In judging Depardieu, for example, today the terrible externalizations made in other circumstances and its excessive and overflowing being also weigh. But does this really make it a molester?