What Gérard Depardieu’s conviction means for France

Yesterday, the French mega-star was declared guilty of assaulting two women in a film. It is the verdict that could have a great impact on the country’s film industry.

It could be more dramatically timed if I had a leg written in a film script. The World’s Most Famous Film Festival, In Cannes, Began On The Same Day That Gérard Depardieu, One of the Biggest Film Stars France has Ever Produced, was Found Guilty of Sex Shutters, Sub Shutters, Sub Shutters, Sub Shutters, Sub Shutters, Sub Shutters, Sub Shutters, Sub Shutters, Sub Shutters, Sub Shutters, Sub Shutters, some blinds. Obscene language. “The cinema giants are no longer untouchable,” exclaimed a French news website, while another said the news had “shaken” the beginning of the iconic festival, where I am currently informing.

Depardieu, seventy -six, is the veteran of around 200 films and television productions. Famous in France since the late 1960s, he had international art art hits with films such as Jean de Florette in 1986. It became a global name as the results of the Oscar nomination for the best actor for a luxurious film production in French in French of Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), as well as the Romantic Hollywood green card of the same year. Yesterday, Depardieu received a 18 -month suspended prison sentence, fed € 29,000 (£ 24,430) and added to the Registry of Sex Criminals in France, but his lawyer said he will appeal the sentence.

Around 20 women have made accusations about the inappropriate behavior of Depardieu in the past, but this is the first to be judged, and the importance of the verdict cannot be exaggerated, the chordination of the writer Agnès c poirier. “When a monument pales, it is always powerful and symbolic,” he tells the BBC.

She adds that her reputation is “deeply tarnished”, but “the French film industry sentenced him a long time ago. He has not filmed a film in three years. His career is finished. He is still one of the best actors of the twentieth century, although we can now feel different when we see his films.”

For many years, the largest figure or department that life also has the Cannes Film Festival. He won the best actor award for Cyrano de Bergerac, throwing him on his journey to Oscar, and also played a role behind the scene; Its director, Thierry Frémeux, admitted that a very derived football film from 2014, United Passions, starring Depardieu, premiered in Cannes due to the actor’s pressure. Recently it was seen in 2015 at the Festival with Isabelle Huppert for the film Valley of Love (and was seen organizing a simulated kiss in the photocall, as shown below).

As expected, the president of the Cannes Jury, Juliette Binoche, who also starred in the Depardieu Front, was asked for her thoughts about the importance of her conviction at yesterday’s opening press conference.

“He is no longer sacred,” he told reporters, a reference to the Power of Depardieu in the French film industry.

Eve Jackson, the editor of Culture of the French news channel France 24, tells the BBC that Depardieu “has been revered as one of Cannes’s film festivals. And now that legacy will be called Questival is that it is a festival that this festival this festival this festival. Bergerac.

Last year’s festival, anticipating the next Depardieu test, was full of activity of the #MeToo Movement of France, with French filmmakers who use the most public platform of international cinema to show movies that deal with sexual treatment or abuse.

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This year, seven films in the main competition are from female directors. One of them, the sound of the fall of the German writer Mascha Schilinski, who opens today, explores the generational abuse of girls told through the history of a family. But it is still so, how many more films will address the issue of the duration of abuse in this festival.

Beyond the films, Jackson says that the atmosphere feels different at the 2025 festival, due to some high profile cases that have sent shock waves throughout France. The main one, in December, Dominique Pélicot and another 50 men were convicted of the rape, attempted sexual violation and aggression of the 72 -year -old Pedot’s Pelicot wife. In February, director Christophe Ruggia was sentenced to assault the portrait of a lady actor in the fire Adèle Haenel when he was a child; Haenel publicly resigned from the film industry in 2023, the battery or “general complacency” towards sexual predators. Benoît Jacquot has been accused of violating two actors, what he denies.

“There is a great change that is happening within the French film industry and you can feel it here in Cannes,” says Jackson. “And I Think The Fall of Depardieu Really Does Repre More and More and More and More and More and More and More and More and More and More and More and More and More and More and More and More and More and More and More and More and More and More and More and More and more and more, more, more and more, more, more, more and more, more, more, more and more, more, more and more, more, more and more, more, more and more, more and more, more and more years were suspended) for what he did with Adèle Haenel.

However, there is some way to go; Last month, a French parliamentary report, led by French deputy Sandrine Rousseau, discovered that abuse was “endemic” throughout the French entertainment industry, and that attitudes were “barely evolving” despite the #MeToo movement. The detailed report had 86 recommendations for change, including greater protections for children’s actors and the use of intimacy co-oordinators as standard for sex scenes in cinema and theater (as of December 2023, only four of them were reported as in the use of Thétids and the entire industry).

Depardieu also had some high profile defenders; President Macron said in 2024 that the actor “was proud of France.” The seventy -six -year actor, Fanny Ardant, is one of his strongest supporters, Depardieu was absent from the verdict making a film with her in the Azores yesterday and she came to court to support him, along with Cyrano His. Iside yours. HISID HIS. HISID HISID ISIDE. HISID HISID. HISID HISID. HISID HIS. His. HISID HISID ISIDE. His. HISID HISID ISIDE. Brigitte Bardot, a French film star from the 50s and 60s, also defended it publicly.

But Jackson points out a reaction to a duration of the event in the Depardieu trial, which according to her is significant of a social change. She there was condemnation when Depardieu’s Lawyer Jérémie assous accused the actor’s two female victims in the Court Case, 54-Year-Old Set Dresser and A 34-Year-Old Assistant Director, or “Rabin” Liars “and Worars” and Worrs “And Worrs” And Worrs “And Worrs” And Worars “And Worars” and Worars “and Worars” and Worars “and Worars” and Worars “and Worars” and Worars “and Worars’

“I think Depardieu looks more and more from a different time and also her lawyers,” she says. “They were called sexists in the way they spoke with the plaintiffs, calling them feminist as if it were something bad. And he joined their problems, because the judge described and imposed a good more fine [of €2,000] that’s why. It highlights the generational change that is happening in France. His supporters are actors of the previous generation, such as Ardant and Bardot. “

A few days before the conviction of Depardieu, Bardot, 90, called the actor a “genius” on French television, and deplored that “the talented people who play the background of a girl are consigned to the better dungeon.” But young people see this son of attitude as Archhaic, says Jackson, and are less aware of his reputation as a great actor.

“For people over 50 and 60, Depardieu evokes memories of being a great actor of a certain time, but I don’t know how many younger people are interested in that story and,” she says.