Anonymous list of alleged sexual abusers leaves French film industry “in a cold sweat” before opening of Cannes Film Festival.
posing on the sand; photographers chasing screaming starlets down the Croisette; Hollywood moguls hosting riotous parties on their huge yachts in the bay.
In the seven years since allegations of rape against Harvey Weinstein forced Hollywood to face up to the problem of sexual abuse, France’s cultural elite, traditionally disdainful of all things American, has been reluctant to admit that it too has a problem. On Tuesday, 100 prominent women appeared together in a “photo manifesto’ published by the highbrow dailyappealing for an end to the impunity enjoyed by sexual predators in some parts of French society–especially in the kind of cultural or artistic circles where successful older men have enjoyed carte blanche to do what they want with younger women.
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