“I decided to politicize my stop of the cinema”. With these words, published by Telerama, actress Adèle Haenel announces that she is stopping her film career in France. “I decided to politicize my stop of the cinema to denounce the general complacency of the profession vis-à-vis sexual aggressors, and more generally, the way in which this medium collaborates with the deadly racist ecocide order of the world as it is. is”, explains the artist, known for her many commitments against capitalism and sexism.
To make the world of cinema, and society, react, Adèle Haenel believes that it is necessary to “vocalize this alarm” and puts the medium face to face with its responsibility. “But they and them all together during this time join hands to save the face of the Depardieus, the Polanskis, the Boutonnats. It bothers them, it bothers them that the victims make too much noise, they would prefer that we continue to disappear and die in silence, ”she continues.
“I cancel you from my world”
In November 2019, the artist had revealed to Médiapart to have been the victim of sexual touching and harassment by the director Christophe Ruggia, evoking at the time “a question of survival”.
His departure from the Cesar ceremony in 2020, to castigate the coronation of Roman Polanski, was a turning point. “Faced with the bourgeoisie’s monopoly of speech and finances, I have no other weapons than my body and my integrity. (…) I am canceling you from my world. I leave, I go on strike, I join my comrades for whom the search for meaning and dignity takes precedence over that of money and power, ”she concludes.